The incident in which an ancient stone lion at Beijing's Fayuan Temple was severely damaged by a tourist has sparked anger ...

In a quiet corner of Qianzhou ancient town, nestled in the mountains of Hunan province, 61-year-old Liang Desong often sits at his wooden desk for up to 10 hours a day. It's demanding for a man of ...

In a final act of capitulation, the seven-year-old ... one man’s obsession with them. His name was Jia Sidao (1213-1275) and here is his story. Jia Sidao is a controversial figure in Chinese ...

As far back as the Ancient Laws of China, the death penalty has been established ... Early laws were accompanied by a scripture from the Old Testament. By 1780, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ...

La Güira National Park, is a paradise in the midst of the humid mountains in Cuba’s westernmost province of Pinar del Rio.

Inventions occasionally paint a very different picture of our ancient world ... Dubbed the Leonardo da Vinci of China, the Renaissance man was an inventor, astronomer, engineer, scientist ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...

A metal detectorist searching private land on the Isle of Man has uncovered a rare bronze spoon that experts believe may have been used by an Iron Age shaman to tell the future. The spoon ...

A metal detectorist on the Isle of Man found a 2,000-year ... Rome turns out to be rare 2,000-year-old material. See it →Metal detectorist unearths ancient gold item — and stuns experts ...

Research led by Jilin University, China, is providing bioarchaeological evidence on a mass grave at the Bayanbulag site in ...

A Chinese man, Zhang Lei, was left stunned after learning ... Shocked by the news, Zhang, a 36-year-old advertising executive from Nanyang in Henan province, decided to search for his biological ...