She is one of three “great lives” acting as signposts in Canadian writer Madeleine Thien’s abstract and momentous new book ...

(Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jaron Wills/Navy) A sailor who disappeared during a scheduled port visit to Guam is still unaccounted for, according to local authorities and the U.S. Navy.

The future emperor of the Ming dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, and his adviser, Liu Bowen, put messages in mooncakes to communicate with other revolutionaries. The popularity of the Mid-Autumn Festival ...

After “dancing with death” in a solo around-the-world race, Chinese sailor Xu Jingkun aims to inspire a new generation of dreamers.

These infamous sailor merchants pillaged foreign ships' traders with ... Built in 1370, the mighty 39-foot-high (12m) Ming Dynasty walls of Xi'an – capital of several ruling dynasties and powerful ...

China's Golden Age, when it became the wealthiest and most sophisticated civilization on Earth, began with what dynasty that ruled from 618 to 907 A.D.: the Shang, the Ming, or the Tang?

Ancient silk paintings dating to China’s Ming dynasty have yielded new clues about the domestication of brown rats, which according to researchers, could have spread to the rest of the world ...

This “Last Dynasty,” as the Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson has termed it, held on—despite frequent infighting, enormous overspending and bitter succession battles—until 30 B.C., when Roman ...

In mid-April 2025, claims (archived) circulated online that U.S. President Donald Trump would require the U.K. to get rid of laws protecting LGBTQ+ people before agreeing to a trade deal. A ...

In an effort to help you find trades that could improve your fantasy team, we present the Dynasty Trade Value Chart. You can use this chart to compare players and build realistic trade offers.

The discovery of an early ninth century burning event marks a turning point in Maya rule, archeologists say. The find is a rare archaeological pinpointing of a historic turning point. Burning Maya ...