Tattoos are older than pottery and possibly fire — but where did they really begin? From Ötzi the Iceman’s 61 therapeutic tattoos to the sacred ink of Egyptian priestesses, this video ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Throngs of people flocked to southern Hong Kong on Saturday to watch the iconic dragon boat races, a highlight of a Chinese festival with over 2,000 years of history.

Whether non-Chinese can be won over remains to be seen, however. While xuan paper has a devoted following among Chinese artists and preservationists, its long absence from the international stage and ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC, has deaccessioned from its collection fragments of contested ancient Chinese artefacts known as the Zidanku Silk ...

The skeleton had been kept in a makeshift shed since its excavation in 2019 due to bureaucratic wrangling.

The sacred texts of ancient India provide a blueprint for navigating today's dilemmas—not through rigid doctrines but through dynamic, principle-based thinking.

Baybayin was the written language of the Philippines before colonization. In 1999, American Filipinos permanently preserved the language through getting tattoos.

The ancient language has seen a resurgence in recent years as more Filipinos connect to their roots. In 1999, Filipinos in San Francisco found a more permanent way to keep the Baybayin language around ...