This “cure-all” mindset shows how medicine at the time was based more on hope than actual understanding of diseases. Gemstone Healing in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Ancient Wisdom in a ...

Gardens from 20 countries were nominated, with Italy and the United Kingdom coming out on top; each ended up with five ... of Chinese garden design motifs: pagodas, buildings, landscape elements.

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

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

according to a groundbreaking study published May 5 in Current Biology. But the revelation didn’t come from satellite imagery or sonar scans—it came from the verses of 724 ancient Chinese ...

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 ... Editor’s Note (5/6/2025): This sentence was updated after posting to correct the ...

Five Chinese zodiac signs attract financial success all week from May 26 - June 1, 2025. The week begins with a Full Day on May 26, which coincidentally is the same day as the New Moon ...

Named after the legendary Indian mariner Kaundinya, who is fabled to have sailed across the Indian Ocean to Southeast Asia, the new vessel embodies a spirit of exploration and cultural exchange.

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman settlement in the United Kingdom found an oven used for making construction materials, photos show. Photo from Cotswold Archaeology Sifting through the ...

Archaeologists excavating the ruins of an ancient Assyrian king’s throne room in Iraq found a massive 26,000-pound carving, a university said. Photo from Schmitt via Heidelberg University ...