Zhu Wenjing approaches her work with city-paced determination, yet her surroundings tell another story: a timeless village ...

I’m deep inside a magnificent Buddhist temple in the ruined city ... ancient Arakan for nearly 20 years. Right, a ten-foot-tall statue of the Buddha looms inside Shitthaung temple, built in the ...

It was on April 6 in 1917, that the United States abandoned its stance of neutrality and officially joined the Allied powers ...

Earthquakes are among the most formidable natural disasters, striking with little warning and causing widespread devastation.

From 6000 BC, the Chinese harvested salt crystals from Lake Yungchen which partially dried in the summer sun. Many other ...

But Mohammed refuses to let the ancient craft die, searching for ways to hand down his knowledge. "We've started training ...

In fact, they were built around the time when Buddhism was introduced in Japan from China ... of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji ...

Since the Tang Dynasty (618-907), Duan inkstones have been prized across social classes. This ancient craft, recognized in ...

Indigenous communities suffer the most because their homelands are concentrated in Cambodia’s northeast — home to the biggest ...

The traces of ancient roads survive ... The road ran from the city of Susa (in modern-day Iran) to the Aegean port of Smyrna (modern-day Izmir, Türkiye), stretching 1500 miles in length.