71, was once the richest person in Fujian province in southeast China. He began his career as a peasant worker and later made a fortune selling sanitary pads.

SAHIWAL: A tense standoff between Pakpattan district police and about 700 peasants (mazareen), including women and children, from the Muhammad Nagar Seed Farm in Arifwala tehsil escalated into a ...

But the taxes paid by peasants went to support the nobles and the clergy so they could eat surfeits of lampreys. Heads they won, tails the peasants lost! Ms Reeves is effectively reinventing this ...

Our archaeological study of Teniky, however, points to a new possibility: a former Persian presence in southern Madagascar about 1,000 years ago. Our study of high-resolution satellite images ...

Winter doesn’t need to be a time of struggle or isolation. By following ancient traditions that celebrate seasonal shifts, we can embrace this time with more intention and ease. As we adapt to ...

An ancient slab of seafloor that was around when Earth’s earliest known dinosaurs emerged has been discovered beneath the Pacific Ocean, where it has seemingly hovered in a sort of mid-dive for ...

For the new study, the researchers painstakingly pored over scientific and technical literature documenting ancient sediment up to several kilometers beneath the sea floor, surveying studies ...

A new book, Remembering Peasants, takes a close look at Europe’s vanished peasantry. Mixing history, personal memoir, and anthropology, it is a vivid reminder of an experience that has only recently ...