It was not until the latter half of 1971, when pharmaceutical chemist Tu Youyou was rereading the Zhou Hou Bei Ji Fang as ...

Diverse elements of Chinese culture and civilization have influenced Persian literature, particularly Persian poetry. Many ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

Dating to the year 700 CE, the Afghan Liturgical Quire is on view at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library's exhibit, ...

Tolerance, coexistence, exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations play an irreplaceable role in advancing ...

The Chinese term guanzhen refers to the moral principles and behavioral guidelines of ancient Chinese officials that ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, visit the Acropolis Museum, accompanied by Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and his wife, Vlassia Pavlopoulou-Peltsemi, in Athens, Greece, ...

When Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang banned, then burned books it caused a loss of knowledge for all of humanity. Now book bans ...

The existence of these “superhumans” was supposedly confirmed in an ancient Roman manuscript. The book was called Germania and was written by Cornelius Tacitus, a Roman historiographer who was ...

At the top of the remains of a large pyramid in Central America, archaeologists discovered ancient puppets with faces that grin or scowl depending on the viewer’s perspective — a finding that ...

The findings come from a study of bone tools discovered at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and dated to around 1.5 million years ago. The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old ...