The royal ice bed used in the Forbidden City was very luxurious and majestic, surrounded by yellow satin on all sides ... During harsh winters when river transportation was halted due to ice ...

Cultures throughout history have put lead to use for wacky and often deeply poisonous purposes ...

North China and the Yellow River-Huaihe River region including provinces of Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu and Shandong. In Beijing, the wind intensity reached notable extremes from Thursday to Friday ...

Some 4,900 yellow-spotted river turtles, also known as tracajás, have been released into the Igapó-Açu River, in Brazil. The threatened species lives in river basins in northern South America ...

Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

Traveling along the Tea Horse Road unlocks a land of teahouses, centuries-old monasteries, and epic valley views.

A man in China who rescued a drowning man while riding a white horse, has earned praise online and been given the nickname Prince Charming. On February 4, the man fell into the river from a bridge ...

Until recently, civilization (as a whole ... The Akkadian Empire formed 4,300 years ago, when Sargon the Great consolidated the city-states of ancient Mesopotamia under his rule. It extended along the ...

This is the basic structure of every installment in the turn-based strategy game series Sid Meier’s Civilization since its debut in 1991 (although in the earliest games, the tiles were square).

The Civilization series has been a fan favorite for decades. This 4X series allows you to take a civilization from early history and build it up all the way through the ages — as long as you ...