The legendary beauty made China a Buddhist country with the help of Indian and Chinese bhikkhus overcoming stiff opposition ...

Hetian Jade duplicates of ancient bronze artifacts were produced in abundance for Qing royals. One such example is a dark ...

The tomb of a Han dynasty prime minister, found with gold artifacts and rare clay seals, offers insights into ancient feudal ...

Wu Zetian was a Chinese queen who ruled the Tang Dynasty from 690 to 705 AD. She the only female emperor in 2,000 years of ...

Wu Zetian, better known as Empress Wu, was not only the first and only female emperor of China but also the richest woman to ...

Wealth has always been a measure of influence, with some of history’s most powerful people amassing fortunes that seem ...

Alcohol distilled in a replica of a disgraced emperor’s 2,000-year-old bronze vat may help rewrite China’s drinking history.

Once the capital of some of China’s most influential dynasties, Xi’an is a city dripping in history. As one of China’s Four ...

Instead, Caracalla was the eldest son of their father Septimius Severus, the first non-European emperor who also founded the Severan dynasty. He was almost a year older than his brother Geta, and the ...

But that strategy can work only as long as no one says that the emperor has no clothes. Putin’s age, 72, doesn’t help. Nor does his questionable health. Both factors conspire to make him ...

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