Nanjing is one of the six famous ancient capitals ... the mausoleum faces a broad semicircular area with a bronze statue of Sun Yat-sen. The statue was presented by a Japanese named Umeya fifty ...

As part of their ongoing work, archaeologists excavated a dried-up pond near the Bayon temple — and found a “rare” turtle ...

On the first storey statues of the four heavenly kings carved ... Sure enough, in 1958 the department of cultural relics of Nanjing found a large number of spare components of the pagoda, most ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the "beautiful" head of a marble statue thought to depict an ancient Greco-Roman god. A team led by Natalia Poulou of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki found ...

Nanjing often seems like a forgotten city ... Its Sacred Way (Shixiang Lu), a zig-zagging approach flanked by statues of stone animals and officials, is particularly impressive.

A proposed design for a new train station in the Chinese city of Nanjing has been ridiculed by internet users for a very unusual reason. Chinese social media users have pointed out that the new ...

This story appears in the August 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Almost every historical atrocity has a geographically symbolic core, a place whose name conjures up the trauma of a ...

This photograph shows one of the statues as it looked in 1997 ... salvaged and later displayed in the Nanjing Museum. A modern steel and glass pagoda, unveiled in 2017, now stands in the same ...

Adam Webb, co-director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, says applications ... At the entrance to the town, a bronze statue shows two men tangled in an intense grip. Due to its rich history, the ...

Shein – which launched in 2011 in Nanjing, China – is the largest fast ... For instance, an 80ft statue of Goofy dressed up as a clown, a Tarzan-themed area where children could swing freely ...

IN WASHINGTON, I'M JULIA BENBROOK. THE ARKANSAS SECRETARY OF STATE SAYS CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST DAISY GATSON BATES WILL SOON HAVE A STATUE IN WASHINGTON D-C. BATES WAS MANY THINGS, INCLUDING A STATE ...