According to Chinese tradition, Chinese civilization is 5,000 years old, though the ancient China of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou ...

In 221 BCE, King Ying Zheng of Qin conquered the rival warring states and established the Qin empire as Qin Shi Huangdi (The ...

It should be belted out as workers pave the Rose Garden and pack up the Monroe armchairs, the Lincoln china and Gilbert Stuart’s Washington portrait to make room for the Donald J. Trump Ballroom.

Nicolas Chow, chairman of Sotheby's Asia and worldwide head of Asian art, writes in his preface for Liu's collection of ...

Continuing her exploration of family heritage, the artist’s latest body of work draws on both her ancestry and the fraught ...

You've got a friend in these classic movies, from "Lilo & Stitch" and "Inside Out" to "My Life as a Courgette" and "Spirited Away." Infamously, 2022’s Best Animated Oscars presentation featured ...

The 2025 Yellow Emperor Worship Ceremony, which celebrates the cultural ... explained that the costume design drew inspiration from styles spanning the Western Zhou Dynasty (c.11th century-771 BC) to ...

Giordano Luca did this portrait in 1693. The second son of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, Leopold I was the Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia. During his reign, he ...

Today, Xinzheng witnessed the grand celebration of the 2025 Yellow Emperor Worship Ceremony, a deeply rooted tradition honoring the legendary figure of Chinese culture. The event brought together ...

Although the campaign ultimately failed, supporters of the forgery theory claim that by adding the Byzantine emperor portraits to the Holy Crown, Joseph II aimed to legitimise Austria’s claim to a ...

Other portraits of Nero, both in a highly battered state, suggesting that the images were attacked in the post mortem memory sanctions that followed in the wake of the emperor’s suicide in AD 68, can ...