Gunpowder has been used for centuries, but did you know that the Chinese invented it by complete accident? Here's everything you need to know about the history.

Greek fire they knew about and used.” Let us accede to the Chinese the discovery of the compass, but not of gunpowder. The author is properly skeptical as to the innumerable Chinese records ...

This concept of mobility in food culture is at the heart of A Movable Feast: The Culture of Food and Drink Culture in China, a forthcoming exhibition at the Hong Kong Palace Museum. Opening this ...

China's long history has seen ... The correct prescription for making gunpowder with nitre, sulphur and carbon was probably discovered in the ninth century. In fact, in his book, Ge Hong in ...

Among other inventions claimed by China are toilet paper, fireworks, gunpowder, the compass, paper money, kites, printing and the clock. The toilet tomb was discovered in Shangqiu county in the ...

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists have discovered dozens ... they defended it with gunpowder weapons," Tonio Andrade, a professor of Chinese and Global History at Emory University ...

The finding shows the astonishing variety of early gunpowder weapons ... The official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that archaeologists discovered 59 of the stone grenades in the ruins ...

The discovery of the grenades revealed to experts that early gunpowder weapons were used during this time period. Expert Tonio Andrade who wrote The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation ...

A woman in China accidentally bit on a firecracker ... “While I didn’t feel any pain at the first instance, I could taste the gunpowder in my mouth,” she said. The explosion caused numbness ...