The Song dynasty ruled China from 960 to 1279, marking a period of economic prosperity, technological advances and cultural ...

New BBC One series The Big Idea Works features everyday people who have come up with a clever idea for a new product, but don’t know where to start in getting it made. Step in Sara, with her eye ...

Glancing at the reliefs illustrated in Han Tomb Art one sees at once that the people who produced them loved hunting, eating, drinking, dancing, music, charioteering, parlour games, and ancient ...

They also left written communications called hieroglyphs on papyrus, a type of paper ... The Xia Dynasty was overthrown by the Shang Dynasty (1600-1050 BCE), and the stability of their rule saw many ...

"Duck Dynasty" star Silas "Uncle Si" Robertson recently spent three days in the hospital after a hunting accident. On his "Duck Call Room" podcast, co-hosts Justin Martin and Phillip McMillan ...

HONG KONG — China is sending Vice President Han Zheng to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington, Chinese state media reported Friday, the first time a senior Chinese leader ...

Anna Abalkina is a research fellow at the Institute for East European Studies at the Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Patent experts unearth some of Britain’s unusual inventions in archive digitisation project For more than 170 years, the uniquely brilliant and occasionally bizarre creations dreamt up by ...

a feminist masterpiece which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Han Kang became a celebrity last year when she won the Nobel Prize in literature. By contrast ...

Paper currency is one of China’s most important inventions ... in 1698 and improved by James Watt in 1769 in the UK. The first compass was invented in China during the Han dynasty between the 2nd ...

The Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio, a key valuation measure, is calculated by dividing the stock's most recent closing price by the sum of the diluted earnings per share from continuing operations ...