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The duo will have transversed 14,000km, travelling through China, Nepal and India. But speaking to Metro, they reveal the one place they’re desperate to return to — and where they’re happy to never ...
China’s demand for gold today hearkens back to the 16th century, when Chinese demand for silver ushered in the world’s first ...
Researchers used robotic diving vehicles to study gold coins on the seafloor by the wreck of the Spanish galleon San José.
Known as the Forbidden City, it served as the symbolic ... Imperial founderThird ruler of the Ming dynasty, the Yongle emperor moved the Chinese capital from Nanjing to Beijing in 1403.
Many readers have surely visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. There, a simple chest is preserved—made of dark, somewhat ...
[Photo by Elyar Najmehchi for chinadaily.com.cn] Fuzhou, capital of southeastern ... is also known as the “City of Banyans”, because of the numerous banyan trees planted there since the Song Dynasty ...
Seat of supreme power for over five centuries (1416-1911), the Forbidden City in Beijing ... testimony to Chinese civilization during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Imperial Palace of the Qing ...
The ruins of Zhouqiao Bridge of the ancient capital of ... axis of the imperial city of Kaifeng, then called Dongjing — and the Bianhe River section of the Grand Canal, the bridge was built between ...
The Sacred, Sensory and Strategic Story of Mysore Sandalwood By Prof. Shalini R. Urs Mysore Sandal Soap is making headlines — ...
In Yixing, a city renowned as China’s pottery hub located in Jiangsu province, an age-old tradition endures through the continuous operation of the Q ...
Shivaashtakam is one of the most powerful mantras written to sing the glory of Lord Shivaits said that a devotee who sings it with full devotion after taking bath and wearing clean white clothes goes ...