The Byzantines maintained relations with China. Credit: Carole Raddato, Flickr CC-BY-SA 2.0 The Byzantine Empire, which was known at the time as the Eastern Roman Empire, maintained a relatively ...

While the world is increasingly dominated by modern pharmaceuticals and Western medical practices, the ancient art of ...

Stilt walking is part of a folk tradition of performances, rooted in ancient Chinese belief systems such as Confucianism and Taoism, that have been used to mark festivals and celebrate local ...

Today, more than a dozen stalls specialising in stamps still line the alley, but the know-how involved in this ancient ... as well as among senior officials in mainland China.

Less well-known are the musical instruments made of clay. They have been played in China since the Zhou dynasty (1046BC-256BC). Today, clay is one of the bayin, the eight categories into which ...

The modern oil ... in ancient Mesopotamia, and was used by the Sumerians, Assyrians, and Babylonians in architecture, building roads, caulking ships, and medicines. Oil was also used in China ...

Bareilly: In another discovery of an abandoned well in UP, an ‘ancient well' -- claimed to be ‘the largest in Sambhal district' -- was found in Saraitareen locality on Friday. The well is ...

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed 4,600-year-old ‘well’ tomb and brick tombs, other burials and an ancient mummy in a Greco-Roman catacomb. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and ...

China’s state oil major CNOOC and shipping line Cosco were added to a military blacklist compiled by the United States for ties between Chinese businesses and the People’s Liberation Army.

JUBA, South Sudan — A small plane chartered by a Chinese oil company crashed Wednesday in a remote part of South Sudan, killing 20 people, authorities said. One passenger survived. The flight ...