IN the year A.D. 659, an illustrated volume of materia medica was published in China. It seems to have served until about 1061, when an extensive revision took place. Prof. Manzo Nakao has studied ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several ...

Lian Da has traveled throughout Shanxi province to create over 2,500 black-and-white illustrations of ancient Chinese architecture using only a pen. When the artist first visited Liaoning province ...

When the first official excavations began at Anyang, China, in 1928, archaeologists unearthed the sort of stuff that can survive three millennia under dirt — bronze vessels, ceramic jars and ...

Lian Da creates a black-and-white illustration of ancient Chinese architecture in Shanxi province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] ...