Asia picture news

17-05-2025

"Fragrant Garden": how the Arabic Kama Sutra appeared

Everyone knows about the existence of the Indian treatise on love "Kama Sutra". But almost no one has heard of the Arabic book "The ...

17-05-2025

Naga fireballs - a phenomenon of the Mekong River that has ...

Naga fireballs, also called "Mekong lights" and "ghost lights", are a phenomenon that can be seen over the ...

16-05-2025

Japan is the birthplace of sexual perversions

Japan is an amazing country and completely incomprehensible to us. All these manga, hentai, bukkake, literally elevated to the rank ...

15-05-2025

22 wonderful pictures from Vietnam from the talented Chan ...

Weaving baskets and fishing nets, the season of pink algae, crossing sand dunes, cow races — all this is so far from the modern ...

14-05-2025

The Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 60s and 70s in ...

Propaganda posters from the time of the Chinese Cultural Revolution of 1966 & #8212; 1976 clearly show how at that time the country ...

13-05-2025

The Subtle East and the fashionable West: an American's photo ...

Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran was completely different from what it is today. Women dressed in Western fashion, freely ...

13-05-2025

Nijo Castle Gardens

Nijo Castle is the fortified residence of the Tokugawa shoguns in Japan. The castle complex consists of many buildings and several ...

12-05-2025

Vintage pictures of Japan in color and 3D

These animated GIF images were created using stereoscopic photographs taken in Japan between 1895 and 1910. The author of the ...

12-05-2025

Iran of 1901 in the lens of Anton Sevryugin

Anton Sevrugin (1830-1933) was the official photographer of the Imperial Court of Iran, his photography studio was one of the most ...

11-05-2025

Red Beach in China

Every year in Liaoning Province, thousands of tourists rush to see the red beach. It turns red in the autumn, when the coastal ...

10-05-2025

The story of the knight Johann Schiltberger, who spent 30 ...

Being in captivity is an ordeal for any person. The fate of such prisoners in the Middle Ages was especially unbearable. No ...

10-05-2025

21 shocking facts about China

Many of us don't know much about our own country, so it's not surprising that these facts about China will seem, if not shocking, ...

08-05-2025

How meat is forged in China

China is one of the world's centers of forgery of everything and everything. For example, in the Middle Kingdom, expensive beef ...

08-05-2025

Japanese schoolchildren create incredibly beautiful drawings ...

Japanese schoolchildren, apparently, adore blackboards, but not because they solve problems there — they draw on them during ...

07-05-2025

Donkey, gopher, spider: Chinese and their exotic pets

China has been overwhelmed by the fashion for exotic animals, which is why the demand for rare and even endangered species is ...

07-05-2025

20 images of combat clothing from the distant past, which ...

Throughout history, people have found a reason for war. Today on the planet here and there pockets of violence flare up. But unlike ...

06-05-2025

Tibetans in the lens of Phil Borges

American photographer Phil Borges travels around the world and takes pictures of representatives of various small peoples with whom ...

06-05-2025

Exquisite Chinese motifs in the images, the iconic ...

Don Hong-OAI (Don Hong-Oai) is a true master of his craft, but fame came to him only at the end of life. Don Hong-OAI became famous ...

05-05-2025

Why do they rent brides and grooms in China

It has long been known that the higher the standard of living in the country, the later young people get married there. China is ...

03-05-2025

Where the soul of Kyoto Lives: architectural gems of the ...

Kyoto is the cultural capital of Japan. Many tourists come here to admire its majestic temples and magnificent palaces. However, ...

02-05-2025

Why it's better not to mess with harsh Chinese flight attendants

Those who believe that it is easy to become a flight attendant will quickly be dissuaded after our post. Training sessions for ...

01-05-2025

Phantom Shanghai: what is left from the old town

In the project "Phantom Shanghai" canadian photographer Greg Girard turned his lens on the city at the time of important changes. ...

29-04-2025

Gods, people and epochs in the paintings of the artist Vishal ...

It's good when an artist finds something new and unusual that makes his paintings interesting and unique. But it's even better when ...

26-04-2025

The Horrors of Manga Master Junji Ito

If you are a fan of manga, you probably know the works of Junji Ito. This comic book creator has been considered unsurpassed in the ...

25-04-2025

Emptiness, simplicity and poverty: 16 real photos of ...

The media often describe North Korea as a country completely isolated from the outside world and living by its own rules. Some are ...