The exhibition – split into four sections, titled Early Civilization, Ancient Route of Han and Tang Dynasties, Tea Horse Trading and Prosperity – will feature 342 antique pieces, borrowed from 12 museums of eight western provinces.
Beijing will enhance the protection of its historical and cultural heritage as well as old townand try to restore the "one axis, one line" landscape, according to the cultural relics workconference of the city held recently.
AS a part of Deke Erh’s “Silk Road Visual Documenta,” the exhibition titled “French Sinologists in China” recently opened on Shilong Road. It runs through April 5.
Preliminary studies on hieroglyphs found in newly discovered pyramid ruins in the Dahshour necropolis have revealed a cartouche of the 13th Dynasty King Emny Kamaw, Adel Okasha, director-general of the Dahshour necropolis, told Ahram Online.
The "party boats" of Roman Emperor Caligula were so legendary that Benito Mussolini partially drained a lake in order to find two of them a century ago.
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More than 10,000 relics have been unearthed in the district, which will soon become Beijing's new administrative center.
A documentary titled Masters in the Forbidden City that was recently screened in China shedslight into the intriguing craft of restoring precious relics in the Imperial Palace.
Archaeologists have found 13 tombs, which are estimated to bebetween 1,800 and 2,700 years old, in Bomi County of southwest China's TibetAutonomous Region.
ROME (RNS) — Italian archaeologists have discovered the remains of 38 skeletons buried in a Jewish cemetery in Rome more than 500 years ago, offering further evidence of their ubiquity and persecution under papal rule.
Impressive artifacts from Ancient Greece found at the Apollonia Pontica antique necropolis in the Budjaka area of the Black Sea port town of Sozopol were on display at the 10th national exhibition called Bulgarian Archaeology, and the antiques on display
Just like spectators at modern-day sporting events, people who attended ancient Roman gladiator fights would have gotten hungry and might have even wanted to shop for little souvenirs.
The Istanbul Gate, a 4,790-meter long wall located in western Turkey's Iznik will undergo a massive restoration project to protect the integrity of the structure, according to a statement from the Bursa Metropolitan Municipality.
Archaeologists have discovered Anatolia's oldest olive oil press, dating back 2,000 years, in the Lyrboton Kome settlement located near the southern Turkish city of Antalya.
An excavation team in Egypt has found what appears to be the interior of a buried pyramid dating back 3,700 years to the 13th dynasty. The antiquities ministry says that both a corridor and a block engraved with 10 lines of hieroglyphics are in good condi
