Almost four million visits helped National Museums Liverpool (NML) record its best ever year in 2018-19, its annual report revealed Monday. It included 507,577 overseas visitors.World Museum in Liverpool, as a member of NML, became the most visited museum
The Department of Antiquities of the Republic of Cyprus announced on Thursday that a major maritime archaeological discovery has been made off the east coast of the island, just off Protaras, near Larnaca.The Antiquities Department statement says the wrec
Researchers successfully reconstructed anthropic influences on sedimentation, including dredging and canal gates use, in the ancient harbour of Portus -- a complex of harbour basins and canals that formed the hub of commerce in the capital of the Roman Em
The 44th session of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO will be held in Fuzhou, Fujian province of China in 2020, said Abulfas Garayev, chairman of the 43rd session of the World Heritage Committee in Baku on Tuesday.The 44th session of the World Herita
A 2,000-year-old bronze mirror with a Confucius portrait was exhibited in the provincial museum in east China's Jiangxi Province, according to the museum.This was the first time that the mirror was exhibited since Chinese archeologists unearthed it from t
Family tomb of ancient bronzeware artisans identified in Central ChinaFrom：Xinhua Net NetWriter：Date：2019-06-28Archaeologists in central China's Henan Province said they have identified 42 tombs unearthed since 2017 to be a family tomb of bronzeware artis
Helou site is located in Fangshan Town, Dingtao District, Heze City, Shandong Province. An archaeological team of Helou site was consists of members from History School of Capital Normal University, Shandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Arc
China has pledged to put more efforts in protecting the country's newly inscribed UNESCO World Heritage -- Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City, according to the country's top cultural heritage official."China's increasing number of world heritage s
American and Israeli archaeologists have found mosaics on bible plots in the north of Israel. Among them were images of animals described by the prophet Daniel, as well as images of the oasis of Elim, where, according to the Bible, the Jews stayed during
Specialists from the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences began to investigate the terracotta head of a Greek deity found at the bottom of the Kerch Bay near Cape Ak-Burun. About this in the group of the Institute of Archeology RAS o
An archaeological expedition, exploring the famous Bryn-Kelly-Dee mound on the island of Anglesey off the coast of Wales, found another mound next to it. A new mound is about a thousand years younger than Bryn-Kelly-Dee; it was built about 4,000 years ago
In the People’s Republic of China, a cemetery was found, where people were buried, “giants” no less than 190 cm tall. The graves are 5,000 years old. The growth of the ancient inhabitants of Europe was 1.5-1.6 meters, and in comparison with them the Chine
Makronissos Island. Source: WikipediaThe island of Makronissos has been declared an archaeological site by a unanimous decision of the Central Archaeological Council.The recommendation was made by the Cyclades Antiquities Ephorate that has been conducting
An aerial view of Kemune Palace from the west, near the Tigris River in Iraq.Credit: University of Tübingen/eScience Center/Kurdistan Archaeology OrganizationWhen a drought dried up the water in Iraq’s Mosul Dam reservoir, it exposed ruins from an ancient
whc.unesco.org/en/documents/175177The Committee will furthermore examine the state of conservation of 166 sites already inscribed on theWorld Heritage List, 54 of which also figure on theList of World Heritage in Danger.Inscriptions on the World Heritage
