Tracen Wassily wasn’t initially sold on the hefty “Epic of Gilgamesh,” a poem that dates back roughly 4,000 years. “At first, I didn’t like it,” said Wassily, who is 16 years old. “But what I wrote ...

For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is critically endangered, rarely sighted, and only found in a tiny proportion of the ...

“My hair bristles with anger,” young men cry as they leave their red-cushioned cinema seats. “We will feast on the barbarians’ flesh...we will drink their blood.” They are reciting lines from “Full ...

Around 1765, Chinese emperor and poet Qianlong was sailing on the Yangtze River toward the eastern city of Zhenjiang when he encountered a breathtaking sight: a group of what we now call Yangtze ...

In London, a poem by the first century B.C. poet Catullus has been the focus for lawyers trying to prove that investment banker Mark Lowe illegally dismissed one of his female employees. Mary Beard, ...

In a two-peaked tent on the University of Arizona campus, classicists cradled the spine of Homer’s “Odyssey.” In 10-minute increments, they completed a non-stop 11-hour reading of this ancient poem — ...

A thousand-year-old poem just cost Chinese delivery giant Meituan tens of billions of dollars in market value, further rattling a tech industry that is already on edge. The firestorm erupted after ...

There's something about cracking open a worn copy of the Tao Te Ching at 6am with your coffee that hits different than scrolling through morning affirmations on Instagram. Ancient poetry and songs ...

A close-up of a "smiling" Yangtze finless porpoise at the Baiji Dolphinarium of the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Endemic to China’s Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless ...

(CNN) — A research team in China got creative in its efforts to save a critically endangered species by turning to ancient poems. The scientists pored over more than 700 ancient Chinese poems from the ...