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• 1,500 year-old church discovered during infrastructure work in Istanbul's Beylerbeyi

Remains from a 1,500-year-old church have been discovered during infrastructure works by Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration (İSKİ) on the Asian shore of the Bosporus, reports said Wednesday.

• 1,700-year-old temple reveals ancient religion in east Anatolia

Duing excavations at the Zerzevan Castle in Diyarbakır's Çınar district, a 1,700-year-old Roman-era underground temple belonging to the Mithras religion has been discovered.

• Message from the Director of the World Heritage Centre on International Day for Monuments and Sites

The 2017 International Day for Monuments and Sites is dedicated to the theme “Cultural Heritage & Sustainable Tourism”, chosen in relation to the United Nations International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development and in the context of the 2030 A

• China salutes best cultural relic restorations

On International Day on Monuments and Sites, which fell on April 18, China's third list of 10 best cultural relic restoration projects was released by the Chinese Committee for the International Council on Monuments and Sites, and China Cultural Relic New

• Tomb complex of Eastern Zhou Dynasty discovered in Henan

Archaeological staff members work at the tomb complex in Zhengzhou, capital of Central China's Henan province, April 20, 2017.

• Ancient carpet collection records history of Silk Road

Carpet collector Wang Xuancheng presents his collection of over 100 ancient carpets from regions along the Silk Road, including several made in Beijing, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang. Wang spent more than 20 years traveling along the Silk Road, see

• 'Priceless' sarcophagus destroyed in Prince Charles's Poundbury development

A Roman coffin on display in Prince Charles's urban development in Dorset, has been destroyed by vandals.

• Initiative to return missing pieces from “Gypsy Girl” mosaic in Turkey’s Gaziantep

Since the day the famous "Gipsy Girl" mosaic was found in the ancient city of Zeugma, attempts have been made to find the missing pieces of the work, which has become a symbol of southeastern Turkey's Gaziantep.

• World youth meet on heritage protection along "Belt and Road"

An international youth forum promoting creativity andheritage protection along the Belt and Road opened Monday in a 1,000-year-old academyin central China's Hunan Province.

• Experts propose park at China sunken treasure excavation site

Chinese cultural heritage preservationists have proposed building a park at the site where relics of a historical uprising were excavated this year.

• Archaeologists find 1,000 statues in tomb in Egypt's Luxor

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered more than 1,000 statues and 10 sarcophagi in an ancient noble's tomb on the west bank of the Nile River in Luxor.

• Several mummies unearthed in ancient tomb near Egypt’s Luxor

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed several mummies, colorful wooden sarcophagi and more than 1,000 funerary statues in a 3,500-year-old tomb near the city of Luxor hailed as an "important discovery".

• 2,000 year-old Roman summer home discovered in southern Turkey

Archaeologists in Turkey's southern Burdur province have discovered a 2,000 year-old summer palace belonging to a Roman emperor, reports said on Tuesday.

• Archaeologists dispatched to newly-unearthed site in southeast Iran

TEHRAN – Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts Organization has dispatched a cluster of archaeologists to the outskirts of Fahraj in Kerman Province, where a wave of recent tremendous sandstorms discovered vestiges of what believed to be an a

• Prehistoric Iran, Persian Garden under spotlight at German museum

TEHRAN – Separate exhibitions on Iran’s prehistoric cultural heritage and Persian Garden open to the public today at the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany -- Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland – in Bonn.

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