However, private trade continued to prosper during this period, Song said. "Discoveries from the two shipwrecks reflect the prosperity of maritime trade in the middle of the Ming Dynasty," he said.

"History is such an entity: it slumbers in darkness until an observer's perspective, like a beam of light, illuminates it.

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Kano Eigaku (1790--1867), whose name appears on this painting, was the official painter for the Ii daimyo house based in Hikone, near Lake Biwa. As rendered in the Jingdezhen workshop by a skilled ...

The town is built around two intersecting waterways, the Shihe River and the Grand Canal. The Grand Canal is a UNESCO World Heritage site and the world's longest man-made waterway, stretching over ...

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Louisiana's famous "Duck Dynasty" family leaned into their Christian faith to celebrate the life of patriarch Phil Robertson during his funeral at their West Monroe church home.

Ming-Na Wen talks about her new movie, Karate Kid: Legends, starring Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio and Ben Wang.

Phil Robertson — the popular leader of Duck Dynasty's Robertson family — died on Sunday.