From the garden deck of his office, Yup Zau Hkawng looks over one of the greener cities in Asia. Myitkyina is the capital of Myanmar's Kachin State, its wide boulevards lined with trees. The sleepy ...

In 2008 Jade West, a small Canadian mining company, was selling nephrite jade for $20 per kilo. Then the Chinese market woke up. The Chinese government ran a campaign to promote nephrite jade during ...

At the site of a Neolithic settlement in East China's Anhui Province that dates to 5,800 to 5,300 years ago, Chinese archaeologists are busy cleaning numerous cultural relics, mainly a variety of jade ...

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Jade face coverings recovered from elite Liangzhu tombs in southeastern China date to roughly 5,000 years ago, placing the origin of jade burial masks about two millennia earlier than the Western Zhou ...

Some 8,000 years ago, Chinese ancestors living in today's north China started to make earrings and necklaces out of a kind of stone in colors of light green or creamy white. The stone has been ...

An exhibition showcasing 51 jade artifacts from North China's Shanxi Province opened at the History Museum of Armenia (HMA) on Wednesday evening, marking the first-ever physical display of ancient ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...