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

I am sitting with the painting now ... years ago and monopolised it for so long - ancient China. Long before the Roman Empire appeared, silk was already cultivated in China and exported on ...

paintings, and ancient ceramics shattering world records. A 10-metre-long triptych entitled Juin-Octobre 1985 by Zao Wou-Ki – one of the 20th century’s most prominent Chinese painters ...

“[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 ...

The story of silk is full of the extraordinary. First Paraguay and Suriname have caterpillars larger than any in Europe, ...

LANZHOU, 19 March (BelTA - Xinhua) - Two rock paintings created around 3,000 to 4,000 years ago have been discovered in Gansu Province, northwest China ... "Gansu ancient rock paintings are ...

a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia, launched the study of archaeology at Northwest University in China’s Shaanxi province. The research laid the ...

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.