Verse written centuries ago still resonates with an audience who appreciate the wisdom of the ages, Chen Meiling reports. Chinese poems have found a way to bloom in the hearts of people centuries ...

A just-deciphered ancient Greek poem discovered in Egypt, deifies Poppaea Sabina, the wife of the infamous Roman emperor Nero, showing her ascending to the stars. Based on the lettering styles and ...

However, the Chinese people's passion for the poems as lyrics of songs is by no means accidental. The ancient Chinese poems could find their roots in music. Tracing its origin, the ancient Chinese ...

“My hair bristles with anger,” young men cry as they leave their red-cushioned cinema seats. “We will feast on the barbarians’ flesh...we will drink their blood.” They are reciting lines from “Full ...

For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is critically endangered, rarely sighted, and only found in a tiny proportion of the ...

Tracen Wassily wasn’t initially sold on the hefty “Epic of Gilgamesh,” a poem that dates back roughly 4,000 years. “At first, I didn’t like it,” said Wassily, who is 16 years old. “But what I wrote ...

New research into centuries-old Marathi poetry is overturning a powerful myth about India’s landscapes, revealing that the ...

The back of the newly deciphered papyrus. It wasn't unusual in the ancient world for texts to be written on both sides. The back of the newly deciphered papyrus. It wasn't unusual in the ancient world ...