By Karen Taylor The famed silk roads, which connected ancient China to the rest of the world, were not so named until many ...

The discovery of the settlements over the years has led to a new understanding of the Asia Minor and Anatolia regions.

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

In two of the most forbidding landscapes on Earth—the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula and the Nazca Desert of ...

Iraq begins preparations to build a new national museum in the Green Zone, expanding cultural spaces to showcase the ...

So, he sank a trial trench into what the locals called Mohenjo Daro, “the Mound of the Dead Men”. Within days he pulled out square steatite seals bearing a horned figure seated in yoga posture and an ...

The flying Apsaras dance across the heavens; caravan bells echo along ancient routes. Dunhuang, a pivotal hub on the ancient Silk Road, served as a crossroads where diverse civilizations converged, ...

BUDAPEST — On Nov 27, The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest opened one of the most significant Chinese cultural exhibitions ...

Poverty Point, a 3,500-year-old earthen mound located in Louisiana, continues to puzzle archaeologists and historians.

Dunhuang, a pivotal hub on the ancient Silk Road, served as a crossroads where diverse civilizations converged, giving birth ...

As it happens, the entrance to the Classics department was only about 20 metres from the entrance to the East Asia faculty ...