Five hundred and fifty-two A.D. Nestorian monks, who would later become Emperor Justinian, brought silkworm eggs to Europe by smuggling them out of China. As a consequence, the silk industry in the ...

One of the most advanced fighter jets in the U.S. Air Force’s arsenal faces an engineering problem which an ancient Chinese ...

Made from premium mulberry silk, the fabric undergoes a complex, laborintensive production process that includes repetitive ...

While the US struggles with deteriorating radar-absorbent materials, China has looked to the past for its cutting-edge solution While US stealth fighters like the F-22 Raptor grapple with delaminating ...

Contents: For many centuries, China was the world's sole producer of silk and silk fabrics, which found their way to every nook and cranny of the globe through trade and other types of exchanges.

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...

cultivation of silk has been an integral branch of Suzhou’s past. Cultivation and trade of the fabric in China as a whole dates back over 5,000 years. Silks were originally reserved for the ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...

For over 1,600 years, merchants, traders, monks and soldiers who journeyed to China’s ancient capital of Xi’an to witness its magnificence travelled via the Silk Road. Now a UNESCO World ...

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.

It suggested that “a dual-layer composite fabric inspired by Han dynasty jacquard ... faces an engineering problem which an ancient Chinese silk-weaving tactic may solve. The Lockheed Martin ...