For years, the Dead Sea Scrolls have fueled theories of encrypted messages and secret doctrines reserved for a select few. A ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

Ruins of a prehistoric stone wall submerged off the northwest coast of France may be evidence that a sunken city of legend ...

The vessels and coin hoards found by the reasearcher date from much later, around the late 3 rd to early 4 th century C.E.

During the Byzantine era, Jews were formally forbidden from entering Jerusalem. The presence of such an object suggests that Jews nevertheless continued to visit under unofficial circumstances ...

A team of Chinese researchers has successfully pinpointed the growth years of three ancient timbers in the Forbidden City and ...

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Roof decorations on Doan Mon, the southern gate of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long in Hanoi. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] Former imperial site in Vietnam leaves an intriguing opportunity for ...

During a recent excavation in Jerusalem, archaeologists searching through the rubble of a building constructed during the First Temple period found something unusual. Inside one room, they discovered ...

Our Oriental Museum is the venue for “Journey of a Century: From the Forbidden City to the Palace Museum”. We are the only place outside of China to host the photography exhibition. It commemorates ...

Watching an American icon like Indiana Jones battle Nazis in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” it’s hard to believe that it was actually a German cultural institute which played a pivotal role in ...