China’s leader draws on lessons from Lin Zexu, a Qing official whose defiance of Britain led to China’s humiliating defeat but made him a national hero.

The discovery marked the first laboratory identification of contents from an inscribed Egyptian alabastron and reshapes ...

Researchers analyzing an extremely rare Egyptian alabastron inscribed with the name of Persian ruler Xerxes I have discovered traces of opium within the ancient vessel, suggesting that the narcotic ...

Poppy cultivation in Manipur happens under the shadow of fear so pervasive that people have accepted as 'normal' the existence of drug lords and armed traffickers in their society.