Those tiny squares of paper we stick on envelopes hold secrets that would surprise even the most curious minds. From the world's first postage stamp that ...

Yidege and Beijing Gongmei Group roll out a gift box containing a delicate calligraphy brush, floral fragrance ink, celadon gourd-shaped inkstone, and colored Xuan paper to make it attractive for ...

Xiang Song carves out a mold for the production of Hui ink sticks at this workshop in Shexian, Anhui province, in November. ZHAO JINZHENG/XINHUA HEFEI — Featuring motifs ranging from lunar craters to ...

The Glover Prize for contemporary Tasmanian landscapes has been won by an artist using a traditional Chinese technique.

Artist Datsun Tran's artist statement finishes by detailing one prayer, that the world can make the changes necessary to save ...

How do documentaries interact with places to spark a true cultural connection? The recent documentary Thousand Years of Huizhou offers a compelling case study. "Hui" is more than just a cultural and ...

A centuries-old Chinese medicinal root is getting new scientific attention as a potential game-changer for common hair loss. Polygonum multiflorum, long believed to restore dark, healthy hair, appears ...

In a remote region of China, thousands of ancient sculptures were carved into the face of a cliff—silent witnesses to a rich cultural and religious tradition. In this episode, we explore the history ...

The oldest known wooden tools have been found in an opencast mine in Greece. They are 430,000 years old and were made by an unidentified species of ancient human – perhaps the ancestors of ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...

A prolific China-linked threat group is turning misconfigured servers in European government networks into relay nodes, in order to hide its cyber-espionage activity, according to Check Point. The ...