UNESCO today welcomed the opening of the hearings of the case of Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague for alleged war crimes and the destruction of historical monuments and buildings of religious significance,
Today, progress from ongoing partnership and hard work can be celebrated.
In order to well preserve and research on cultural heritages of grottoes along the Silk Road, Gansu officials broke the original management system and transferred the management of the north grotto and two world heritage sites: Maijishan grottoes and Bing
The Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, has begun torenovate one of its major former imperial courtyard houses in an effort tobetter protect a building that is nearly 500 years old and to set an examplefor preserving other historical building
More than 400 ancient coins spanning a history of 2,500 years will be ondisplay in a museum in Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province.
The Silk Road and Russian Ethnic Cultural Heritage is jointly launched by the Russian Museum of Ethnography and the National Museum of China. The 594 exhibits provided by the Russian Museum of Ethnography epitomize the unique culture of peoples in souther
The 7 centimetre (2 3/4 inch) needle was made and used by our long extinct Denisovan ancestors, a recently-discovered hominin species or subspecies.
The Okunev people are seen as the Siberian ethnic grouping most closely related to Native Americans. In other words, it was ancestors of the Okunevs who populated America, evidently using primitive boats to venture to the ice-covered Beringia land bridge
To prepare for the exhibition of the relics, workers are busy arranging exhibits in the Jinsha Site Museum. Excavated in the city of Zaoyang in Hubei in 2002, the Jiuliandun Tombs consist of a tomb of a general and his wife, according to Wang Fang, an arc
Around 1,500 years ago, at a time when China was divided, a woman named Farong was laid to rest wearing fantastic jewelry, which included a necklace of 5,000 beads and "exquisite" earrings, archaeologists report.
搜索复制The grand exhibition "Pharaohs and Kings: Treasures of Ancient Egypt and China's Han Dynasty" was unveiled to the public on Wednesday, which presents the different features of ancient Egypt civilization and Han Dynasty (202 BC-AD 220) civili
Agangof38tombraidershavebeenjailedinNortheastChina'sLiaoningprovince.Theywereinvolvedin36casesofstealingfromancientruins,includingfromastate-levelprotectedheritagesitedatingback1,000years,alocalcourtsaidTuesday.GangleaderWuAnjie, 48,wasgivenajailtermof11y
Bulgarian archaeologists say they have found the world's oldest gold artifact — a tiny bead which they believe is 6,500 years old.The bead was unearthed in the remains of a small house at a prehistoric settlement known as Tell Yunatsite, just outside the
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has one of the largest collections of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy. An exhibition dubbed 'Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the Metropolitan Collection' is giving visitors a chance to see these ancient wo
An unusually delicate pair of artifacts recently emerged from a dig site in the United Kingdom: a tiny ball of thread and another length of thread wound around a bobbin. Both are estimated to be approximately 3,000 years old.
