Golden threads dance between silver needles, threading vitality into the intricate snake-pattern embroidered fan in the warm sunlight in winter. As the vibrant colors bring the snake to life, Liu ...

The Yuezhi tribes of Central Asia, who had pushed the Shakas into the Indian subcontinent, were the last to make their way ...

The timeless fairy tale of Bai She Zhuan, The Legend of the White Snake, has been retold in a variety of art forms.

Artificial intelligence is even peering through the most impenetrable of artifacts: ancient, charred scrolls that are too delicate to be unfurled. Scholars have deciphered some of the first words ...

De Laurentis uses the classical musical expression sprezzatura to emphasize a fundamental pursuit in calligraphy — even if a ...

Sleeping on silk is the same idea, just fancier due to the higher-quality material. While silk wouldn’t have made sense for me at 10 or even 15, it has become a go-to in adulthood and is less ...

An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why. By Siddhartha Mitter A jury found them guilty of conspiring as part of a crew to steal art, sports memorabilia and artifacts from smaller museums.

‘How can Pawar felicitate...such a betrayer who brought the MVA [Maha Vikas Aghadi] government down?’ asked Uddhav Sena leader Sanjay Raut.

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26.8 x 21.5 cm. (10.6 x 8.5 in.) ...

Knowledge and appreciation of these subjects helps to preserve, diffuse, and promote elements of our common heritage of the Silk Roads. Have you ever heard of China’s Lantern Festival? The annual ...