Many foods in Chinese culture have deep, rich meanings, so we took a deep dive into 14 different foods to learn more about their symbolic nature and history.

Step into a world where history breathes through the delicate curve of a jade pendant, the gleam of a gold crown and the ...

China is known as the world's earliest country to discover and utilize natural lacquer. Its tradition of lacquerware dates ...

For the first time in 104 years, all six gold crowns of the Silla Kingdom (57 B.C.E.-935 C.E.) reunite in a historic ...

This precious artifact, together with other ceramic figurines, was donated by Zheng Zhenduo (1898-1958), a renowned scholar ...

Antiques Roadshow took a dramatic turn when a guest nearly fainted after learning her cherished ancient artifact was merely a ...

To understand Chinese culture, it is necessary to go back to the very beginning of its civilisation. In this series, we look at the most influential dynasties in Chinese history and how each, with its ...

A collection of small toys and a seal bearing a name – these are the remnants of the lost childhood of a Chinese emperor’s son. His father was tossed from the throne just 27 days after the emperor ...

Archaeologists in China have made a unique discovery in a cemetery dating to the Western Han Dynasty (221 – 206 BC) – two bronze lamps that could ‘swallow’ smoke. Historians are hailing the discovery ...

A shipwreck loaded with Tang dynasty (618-907) ceramics buried off Indonesia; an ancient Chinese sailing boat replica built upon inspiration from Ming dynasty navigator Zheng He; a painting of busy ...

It has been seven years since two men found a bronze Ming Dynasty Buddha statue on a roadside in WA's Shark Bay region. Tests confirmed the Buddha had been buried for 150 years and is probably linked ...