He was the first person to rule unified China and reigned from 221BC to 210BC. But it’s his burial site that is the most ...

Uncover China's landmarks, from the majestic Great Wall to the breathtaking Yangtze River - 4000 years of history and culture ...

Meeting the same fate was his royal library in Nineveh, which Ashurbanipal stuffed with tens of thousands of text-bearing clay tablets he had commissioned or amassed from all over his conquered ...

Replicas of statues part of the 'Terracotta Army' of the first Chinese emperor will be available for viewing for the first time in Romania at the Arad Museum Complex until spring next year as part of ...

Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. There is a phrase called “mukurikokuri.” According to the dictionary at hand, it is a metaphor for something frightening ...

Why not pursue wonder?” suggests a story I once read. A healthy sense of curiosity, the author argues, fosters tolerance, inspires creativity, builds resilience and makes us more “desirous of studying ...

Gaza Strip - 02, 2024 [Note: partially no sound] As part of the operations conducted by the troops of the 252nd Division in ...

Sometimes, the strangest objects end up in Irish collections. Many were brought back to Ireland by those who worked with the ...

It was India, not China, that was the greatest trading partner ... worth seven million sesterces, at a time when a soldier in the Roman army would have earned about 800 sesterces annually, and ...

A tea cup and some tea in China. (Source: Denyse Waissbluth ... where people will sell their teas with special spices in clay cups. In Singapore, there is Teh Tarik, which means pulled tea.

Two books explore the scandals and controversies around the acquisition of antiquities by curators and collectors.

These poppies are made from clay, each symbolizing a Canadian soldier who died in the First World War. Grade 4/5 teacher Paul Best has been doing the clay poppy project on and off since 2017 ...