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Historians may have to review the history of the relationship between the Etruscan civilization and the Roman Empire, after Italy’s Culture Ministry on Tuesday announced the discovery of several dozen bronze statues believed to be over 2,000 years old in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring. Massimo Osanna, the ministry’s director of museums, hailed the discovery as one of the most significant ever in the Mediterranean region. He explained that the bronze figurines – which depict humans, gods, and individual body parts – were found perfectly preserved thanks to them being covered in mud. Alongside the statues, archeologists also reportedly found…

Earlier this year, in a letter of congratulations following the inauguration of the Chinese History Research Institute, President Xi Jinping said that history, properly understood, performs two important functions: helping people reflect and making them wiser. In fact, President Xi has publicly emphasized the importance of history to the country’s development on a number of occasions, urging people to pay closer attention to history and to draw practical conclusions from it. In doing so, President Xi is following in the footsteps of the great tradition of Chinese historiography, a tradition which has recently taken shape in the form of a televisual…

Asian powerhouse China signed off their 2022 World Gymnastics Championships campaign with a bang as Zou Jingyuan delivered a show-stopping performance to clinch a well-deserved gold medal in men’s parallel bars on the final day of the showpiece event in Liverpool, England on Sunday night.The 24-year-old Zou, who also bagged the Olympic gold in the same event last year, dominated from start to finish and posted the highest score of the meet in any final with a stunning 16.166 points. Germany’s two-time Olympian Lukas Dauser finished a distant second with 15.500, while Philippines’ sensation Carlos Yulo took bronze with 15.366.The…

The C919 jetliner made by Chinese planemaker Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) debuted on Tuesday at the country’s biggest airshow, securing orders for 300 planes for the company. The large passenger plane, the first homegrown one for China, got its airworthiness permit from Chinese regulators in September. The first C919 is expected to be delivered to China Eastern Airlines in December. The orders for the 300 C919 planes came from seven leasing companies backed by banks in China, multiple local media outlets reported. COMAC also displayed a medical jet model derived from its ARJ21 jetliner with intensive care unit (ICU) capabilities, securing…

Inside the red walls of Changsha’s Fiery Palace in central China’s Hunan Province is one of the unique dishes I’ve ever tasted or seen made – stinky tofu.The dish dates back to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) when a local woman began frying discarded tofu in tea oil and stumbled upon a dish that would become a pillar of Hunan’s thriving street food culture. Zhou Houmu, the fourth-generation inheritor of the craft of making Fiery Palace stinky tofu, keeps the tradition near and dear. I met him in the kitchen of the dining area, frying the signature dish.But before dipping the…