Aside from my academic endeavors, I make sure to explore the city's most famous landmarks and cultural sites. These visits ...

To date, China has officially recognized 198 items or groups of archival heritage at the national level. The National Archives Administration of China has further urged provincial-level archives ...

James Whitlow Delano To conjure the lost world of imperial China ... that the group’s music dates back 13 centuries. Musicians had to hide—or even bury—their instruments during Mao ...

Imagine standing in the heart of a sun-scorched desert. The wind hushes, the world holds its breath, and suddenly, a deep, ...

Swarthmore College’s students, professors, and community members witnessed a strikingly thoughtful senior recital by Cui ...

Archaeologists in Dahwa, Oman, found two strange discs that turned out to be a rare 4,000-year-old musical instrument, ...

The cymbals were excavated from a building dating to the third millennium BCE, associated with the Umm an-Nar culture. Though ...

Bronze Age cymbals found in Oman reveal how music united ancient cultures across trade routes, ceremonies, and rituals.

An unknown tribe of ancient hunter-gatherers ... the author of a new study identified a musical rasp fashioned from a humerus, resembling a macabre instrument called an omichicahuaztli that ...

The spoon-shaped instrument was placed on a cast bronze plate called ... Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the ...