In the remote Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, a rare fungus grows inside dead caterpillars. In traditional Chinese medicine, this parasitic fungus is prized for its purported medicinal effects. Known as ...
As he hurried back to a rear base of the U.S. Air Forces, the weather settled down on him in the midst of the mountains ... friends buried him in an ancient Chinese cemetery near Kunming.
From the most to least famous, these are ten great paintings dedicated to ancient Greek myths or containing references to them. 1. The Birth of Venus Sandro Botticelli, the great Italian painter of ...
The mountain trail south of Haiti’s capital was long used only by farmers hauling strawberries to market and the rare adventurous hiker. It passes bucolic highland pine forests and follows ...
A man wearing a portable grill was spotted selling meat skewers while snowboarding on a mountain in China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. The snowboarding coach had wanted to promote his ...
Vermeer’s oeuvre may be slim—only 35 surviving works are widely attributed to the Dutch painter—but it casts a long shadow. Little is known of the artist himself, so much so he was dubbed ...
We finally know how a fault that gave rise to Denali, North America's highest mountain, first formed. According to new research, the Denali Fault is actually an ancient suture mark where two land ...
President-elect Donald Trump vowed on Sunday to rename the tallest mountain peak in the United States, the "Denali" back to its former name "Mount McKinley." Newsweek has reached out to Trump's ...
BEIJING, Dec. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — China International Communications Group (CICG) recently launched an animated video about traditional Chinese culture, titled “High Mountains and Flowing Water,” ...