The National Museum of Asian Art is presenting “Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings,” the first major exhibition in the United States dedicated to Anyang, the capital of ancient China’s Shang ...

Artwork and statues in China’s Dunhuang caves have survived sandstorms, political upheaval and tourists for more than a millennium. Now preservationists fear they’re facing their most unrelenting foe ...

Flash floods and years of unusual rainfall — likely linked to climate change — are degrading ancient cave art along China's historic silk road at a rapid pace. More than 1,500 years ago, followers of ...

More than 2,000 years after an artist in ancient China picked up a brush and a clam shell, researchers are getting the first glimpse at what they actually painted. Clams were eaten by people of the ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has deaccessioned fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts (fourth–third century B.C.E.) from its collection and formally transferred them to the ...

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