Visiting traditional clay pottery villages is like stepping into a living museum of ancient pottery art. Quietly tucked away in peaceful landscapes, these villages provide a unique opportunity to ...

Since at least the 16th century, potters in China’s ... number of pottery studios. This year, though, things are starting to change. October saw the opening of UCCA Clay — the contemporary ...

Researchers find 50 cave pearls in Jerusalem’s Joweizeh Spring Tunnel. Pottery fragments and plaster remains embedded in 14 pearls. Artefacts linked to Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods.

The findings – from a Shangshan archaeological site in Pujiang county, part of ancient China’s Lower Yangtze region – mark “the earliest known alcohol fermentation technique in East Asia ...

Monastiraki Square in Athens. Credit ... but least visited archaeological sites in Athens is Kerameikos, the ancient cemetery of Athens, which was in continuous use from the ninth century BC until ...

Viktor Orban, the strongman Hungarian prime minister, ended his country’s helm at the six-month rotating EU presidency much as he started it: with a flurry of “peace mission” visits that ...

As ancient Chinese timber-frame buildings gain increasing global attention through diverse platforms, including the internationally popular video game Black Myth: Wukong, a conference dedicated to ...

RESEARCHERS have found the world's oldest beer that they say was likely used for ancient boozy parties and ritualistic purposes 10,000 years ago. The discovery of rice beer fermentation in China ...

China signaled more public borrowing and spending in 2025 with a shift of policy focus to consumption, in an effort to repair the economy’s weak link as looming US tariffs threaten exports.

China’s economy is teetering on the brink of widespread deflation. The WSJ looks at Japan’s “lost decade” to explain what China’s struggles mean for the global economy. Photo ...