At 70, the third-generation inheritor of the 100-year-old Palace Museum's official ancient ... "shanbei" refers to an ancient Chinese architectural waterproofing technique. Another critical ...

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Step into one of the most mind-blowing architectural wonders in the world — a full-scale traditional Chinese city built completely indoors. Featuring stone-paved streets, ancient-style architecture, ...

Most Chinese hospitals have a ward devoted to ancient cures. Citing traditional medicine’s potential to lower costs and yield innovative treatments, not to mention raise China’s prestige ...

His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey. Several colossal heads that once stood in the mausoleum of Antiochus I of Commagene now lie in front ...

A Chinese lawmaker ... known as the Palace Museum. The coffeehouse remains where it was two months after a TV news anchor initiated an online campaign to drive it out of the ancient palace ...

From a desert monument in Oman with a soaring spike to a colourful waterside pavilion in Japan to a grand museum in Egypt ...

The intrigue. The plotting. The back-stabbing. The Story of Yanxi Palace has it all. Viewers cannot get enough of the show currently on in China, Hong Kong and streaming across Southeast Asia ...

An archaeologist (left) cleans a cornerstone of a palace, which dates back to the early Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), at the Palace Museum in Beijing in May. LAN HUIQING / FOR CHINA DAILY Evidence ...

The province also boasts 509 Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) wooden structures, accounting for over 80 percent of such buildings in China. It has more colored sculptures, murals and ancient stages than ...

SHIRAHAMA, Wakayama Prefecture—Fans of the four remaining giant pandas at Adventure World here and local businesses are bracing for their return to China at the end of June, which the park ...