The story of this ancient international heist reveals much about the ancient economies of both ancient Rome and China.

The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were smuggled into the United States in the 1940s. Scholars say they provide remarkable insights ...

The parts of the manuscript returning to China are Wuxing Ling and Gongshou Zhan, known by scholars as Volumes II and III.

The parts of the three-volume manuscript that have been returned to China are Wuxing Ling and Gongshou Zhan, known by ...

The silk manuscripts, containing more than 900 Chinese characters, are the earliest examples of silk text discovered to date ...

The plane carrying China's earliest known silk texts, the Zidanku silk manuscript volumes II and III, touched down at Beijing Capital International Airport at 3:55 am, Sunday, ending their 79-year ...

Two volumes of 2,300-year-old silk books – the earliest known in China – arrived in Beijing from the United States in the ...

The museum’s fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were looted from a tomb in Hunan Province and smuggled into the US ...

A seminar was hosted by the Consortium for Asia Pacific Studies (CAPS) on Tuesday reignited conversation around one of history’s ...

Wuxing Ling consists of lunar month illustrations paired with explanatory texts, recording seasonal taboos and auspicious ...