In 1044, the Chinese invented gunpowder. And we've been getting into trouble ever since. Fireworks are cool, nuclear warfare is not. And nuking the Moon? Doesn't that sound just plain crazy? What ...
Two medieval cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan were bustling centers of Silk Road trade between China, Arabia and Europe. Researchers have now mapped the cities using drone-borne LiDAR.
In a mountain-top marketplace in Uzbekistan, a trader sells Chinese silks, pots of gunpowder and jade dragon amulets, teeth-bared and grinning. Imams and Buddhist monks saunter past. The air is ...
China offers multiple visa-free travel policies to foreigners, enabling people from a wide range of countries to visit China on a short-term basis. In this article, we provide an overview of all of ...
Not without reason, though often without much reflection, historians of the modern world have been fascinated by our capacity to kill each other by launching projectiles and blowing things up. The ...