Crammed into the tiny upstairs of the small Northwest Iowa County Museum in 1980 was a collection of rare and historic ...

“It’s 5,000 years of creativity,” said Kate Parsons, the museum’s director of collection care and access. It took more than a ...

Wu Wei plays an ancient Chinese instrument with thousands of years of tradition that’s been “updated” for a modern audience. It’s called the sheng, or Chinese mouth organ. Reporter Caroline Feraday ...

Scientists have recreated the elusive Egyptian blue, a pigment used by ancient Egyptian artists for thousands of years.

The guqin, with its nearly 3,000-year history, does more than produce music. It is woven into the very fabric of Chinese ...