The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

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

There are also many miniature wooden farm animals and tools once used as funerary objects — evidence of the thriving ...

Wind-driven wildfires that were among South Korea’s worst ever were ravaging the country’s southern regions, killing 24 ...

Archaeologists are hopeful that this discovery could shed some new light on the “lost” Abydos Dynasty. The expedition was led by a team of researchers from University of Pennsylvania ...

The event is called Code & Cosmos, and its underlying thesis is that the fields of science and technology, once considered diametrically opposed to religion and spirituality, might converge with ...

This cultural hybridity enabled the empress dowager to rule directly: On one hand, the Chinese court system rooted in the Han dynasty had long included the ... had become deeply familiar with Buddhism ...

Jordan King is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her current focus is on religion, health, food safety and population. She has covered the persecution of religions in the global south ...

The Millennium Falcon may be synonymous with Han Solo, but he actually didn’t own it for very long. The Falcon has a long and storied history ranging from the Kessel Run all the way to the ...

Moreover, the common assumption that cat domestication took place in China during the Han Dynasty between 206 ... incorporated them into Chinese folk religion, Luo said. "Ancient Chinese people ...

More considered the world's busiest land crossing. HI Mobility—controlled by Malaysian oil and gas tycoon Lim Han Weng—is raising 115.9 million ringgit ($26.3 million) from its IPO to add ...