Appearing on stamps, merchandise and plush toys, the diminutive jadeite carving is so popular it occupies its own room at Taiwan’s National Palace Museum.

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In Dakar, the capital of a country where 97 percent of the population identifies as Muslim, I found a palpable connection ...

Read an extract from a powerful new book on women and how we reconnect with the natural world through ancient myth.

In the era of fast fashion and low-quality home goods, the allure of antiques seems to have weakened for many young people.

A small number of employees at the largest companies have stayed in one job for decades, making them witnesses to the ...

Kahlo vibrantly and unsparingly depicted herself and events from her life, which was upended by a bus accident at 18. She started to paint while bedridden, underwent a series of painful surgeries on ...

Aoyu is a mythical creature from ancient Chinese legend. According to folklore, in ancient times, carp sought to leap over ...

Most everyone has a favorite recipe, and it’s often something your mother, grandmother or another beloved relative made over ...

Haunting and visceral, her exhibition “Søgelys” unfolds into a living stage where bodies, color and psyche collide.

In the heart of India lies Chhattisgarh, a land where rivers weave their path through fertile plains, forests grow in abundance, and fields of lush green paddy abound. Situated between the Satpura ...

The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...