Distinctive in taste and famously divisive, durian is not everyone's choice of fruit. This was certainly the case for some ...

Ming, the world’s oldest known animal, lived for 507 years before being accidentally killed by humans in 2006.

As an officially commissioned Buddhist canon from the Ming Dynasty, its calligraphy, engraving, and binding reflect the ...

Renowned for its exquisite Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) murals, the Guanyin Temple is located in Xinjin district, Chengdu, in ...

More than six centuries ago, roughly 80 years ahead of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, Chinese admiral Zheng He reached ...

A stele at the Jingling Mausoleum in Beijing, which opens to the public through a reservation-only system on December 22, ...

Small statue from Peru. Some of you might just recognise the plaintive moan or humming sound of a llama ...

But whilst undeniably (and impressively) old, living through such events as the Aztec Empire and the exploding whale incident ...

The incredible country founded the largest contiguous land empire in history, but today it lies virtually empty.

China’s people, as is sometimes said, are “trying to breathe,” hoping to find some freedom from central control. Four female college students in the central city of Zhengzhou tried to breathe in June ...