William Dalrymple's how India was a major trading partner of the Roman Empire Trade was primarily conducted through sea routes rather than the Silk Road Hundreds of vessels arrived in India each ...

Officials in conservative communities in the United States have been removing books from schools and libraries, to the outrage and dismay of liberal-minded Americans. This process has reportedly ...

[Photo/Xinhua] Xinjiang was known as Xiyu, or the Western Regions, in ancient China. Following its unification during the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1735-96) of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the ...

The fact that scientists are finding intact biochar in the Amazon’s ancient terra preta suggests that it’s happening. “Biochar is already a compelling solution,” said Thomas A. Trabold ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a 2,800-year-old fortified wall that predates the country's first emperor. The wall, which runs through a narrow mountain pass in the eastern province of ...

IN his Conway Memorial Lecture, "Science and Society in Ancient China", delivered on May 12, 1947, Dr. Joseph Needham attempts to sketch a pattern of the organisation of Chinese feudal society and ...

A mountain resembling the head of a puppy has become a tourist destination along an ancient Chinese river. The mountain, dubbed "puppy mountain", sits in the city of Yichang in central China's ...

WASHINGTON: Ground-penetrating radar data obtained by China's Zhurong rover has revealed ... that exhibits surface features suggestive of an ancient shoreline. Its ground-penetrating radar ...

China's Mars rover Zhurong finds possible shoreline of ancient Red Planet ocean — What makes Mars the 'Red' Planet? Scientists have some new ideas ...

China's Zhurong rover has found evidence of an ancient shoreline buried deep beneath the planet. That could point to an ocean, a beach, and to life.

It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.” In ancient China, the land ethic was focused centrally, if not exclusively, on maximising agricultural ...

Many scientists think that Mars used to have an ocean that covered up to a third of the planet, but the theory is still debated. New data from China's Zhurong rover strengthens the case for an ...