“[It is a] marriage of ancient patterning ... old textile innovation: the art of silk jacquard weaving.” The technique is believed to have been developed in China around the second century ...

This painting from the bottom of a bowl is one of the earliest depictions of a cat from China, dating to ... likely via the famous Silk Road trading route, ancient feline DNA reveals.

Archaeologists have identified what caused unusual red dye marks on the remains of a young woman who lived 2,200 years ago in ...

Different cultures follow different practices, especially when death arrives. Some believe in mummification, while some ...

The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise ...

More than 80 archaeological sites and artifact distribution points containing artifacts that date back from the Neolithic period ...

On Friday evening, the symphony Silk Road Across Hanhai (Endless Desert) will make its debut at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. The symphony was created by brothers Zheng ...

Opening this month to coincide with Hong Kong Art Week ... people and foreign merchants along the Silk Road, a network of trade routes ran through China, across the Pamir mountains, through ...

The howling of wind and pounding of hooves, the battle cries and clinking of cold glistening sword, the solemn chanting of ...

Scientists have confirmed that the pigment used is cinnabar, a valuable mineral historically linked to religious rituals, art ...

One of the most advanced fighter jets in the U.S. Air Force’s arsenal faces an engineering problem which an ancient Chinese ...