An 8,000-year-old Neolithic jaw, known as a qvevri — a vessel used for fermentation — found in the Republic of Georgia.Credit: Judyta OlszewskiThis remarkable find deserves a toast: People were fermenting grapes into wine about 8,000 years ago in what is
A skeleton and some burial objects are found near Changzhuang Reservoir in Zhengzhou, Henan province, Oct 27, 2017. A total of 73 ancient tombs were discovered near Changzhuang Reservoir in Zhengzhou,the capitalcityof Henan province, and archaeologists pr
Archaeologists work at the No. 3 Horse and Chariot Pit near the city of Xinzheng, Central China's Henan province, June 15, 2017. Archaeologists have excavated a 2,400-year-old pit containing horses and chariots beside a tomb possibly belonging to a lord.
Items unearthed from the tomb of China's first female general are on display at Changsha Muesum. More than 470 items unearthed from the tomb of China's first female general are on display in Central China's Hunan province.The exhibition, covering 1,600 sq
An aerial view of the ancient tombs in Zhong county, Southwest China's Chongqing. Twenty-seven ancient tombs have been unearthed in Zhong county, Southwest China's Chongqing, during a three-month excavation covering an area of 1,600 square meters.These si
A mural from the Mogao Cave 61 shows a celebration scene at Wutai Mountain during Chongyang Festival. The Dunhuang Research Academy has released a batch of Dunhuang murals showing the ancient folk scene of the Chongyang Festival, or Double Ninth Festival,
Terracotta warriors from the Emperor Qinshihuang's mausoleum are on display in Naples, Italy, Oct 24, 2017. The Terracotta Army, also known as the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, unearthed from the tomb of Emperor Qinshihuang, is now on display in the 16t
The hull of the ship was cracked, suggesting it was hit and took on water, leading to it being wrecked some 700 years ago.Credit: Photo courtesy Chinese Cultural RelicsArchaeologists have uncovered a shipwreck buried under silt and mud that dates back aro
The newly discovered Coptic gravestone.Credit: Egypt Ministry of AntiquitiesArchaeologists unearthed an ancient Coptic tombstone during a dig Sunday (Oct. 22), according to Egypt's antiquities ministry.The tombstone is decorated with a cross and Coptic in
From November 2016 to January 2017, the joint archaeological team of Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Longquan Municipal heritage protection management has conducted an initiative archaeological excavation on the site o
The graveyard relicslocatednearFudiCity in Huanghua,north China's Hebei Province. Photo provided byHuanghua municipal governmentBy Fang Ning, Wang MinA total of 110 tombs dating back more than 2,000 years have been discovered in northern China's Hebei Pro
Pottery Workshop of the Song Dynasty Found in Nanyao Site, SuzhouFrom：Chinese ArchaeologyWriter：Date：2017-10-20rom June to November in 2016, Suzhou Municipal Institute of Archaeology conducted a salvage excavation to Nanyao site, with an area of about 600
German archaeologists from the University of Tübingen found a whole “archive” of clay tablets with cuneiform. The find was made in Iraqi Kurdistan. In total, the scientists managed to find 93 Assyrian plates.Specialists dated them 1250 gg. BC. – the Middl
Ancient stone quarry located near the city of Nanjing, China. Used for many centuries as a source of stone for buildings and monuments of Nanjing. Now it is a historical monument. The quarry was famous for the presence of a giant incomplete stela, which w
Last year, in the tomb of Liu He, the most unworthy emperor of the Celestial Empire, a huge archive of records on bamboo tablets was found, among which, according to scientists, could be the lost sayings of the great moralist Confucius.At the end of Augus
