BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) -- During the five-day May Day holiday, museums across China recorded more than 60.49 million visits, setting a new record and marking a 17 percent increase year on year. For ...

Special Agent Jose Irizarry — a former air marshal from Puerto Rico hired by the DEA in 2009 despite failing a polygraph _ landed a coveted overseas post in Cartagena, Colombia, in part because he was ...

Dive into the history of graphic ... texts and art masterworks. This method of hand-copying manuscripts was fundamentally disrupted in the 15th century with Johannes Gutenberg's introduction of the ...

Why you should go: Dead Poets’ menu offers a quirky collection of cocktails inspired by the 27 Club of late musicians and artists, allowing you to sip a bit of history ... What you should order: ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

A creature once revered in ancient Chinese folklore and immortalized in poetry for its playful spirit and perpetual smile is now swimming against extinction. The Yangtze finless porpoise—Asia ...