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

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

Throughout history, drums have occupied a unique place in the cultural, psychological, and social lives of societies. They are tools of ritual and celebration, instruments of war and peace, and ...

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.