The Jigoku-zoshi (“Handscrolls of Buddhist Hell”) is a Japanese scroll from the late 12th century that graphically depicts naked, horrified monks running away from bands of vicious, animal ...

Tiny scrolls tucked into Tibetan statuettes; images lying in wait in mirrors. An exhibition turns the spotlight on 75 bronze ...

The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea to present-day Afghanistan, was home to several of the world's oldest civilizations. Favored with an ...

The nearly 1,000-year-old ink painting by Su Shi fetched US$59.5 million at an auction in Hong Kong, auction house Christie’s said on Monday. Christie’s has described the Song dynasty (960 ...

The exhibition Spring: A Celebration of the Year of the Snake from Tuesday to March 2 will feature 13 objects selected from the Shanghai Museum collection, including borrowed pieces from the first ...

But the history of bronze across Asia is so rich, so ancient, that scholars around the world are still uncovering its secrets. In the Netherlands, for instance, they recently found that a tantric ...