With a rich cultural heritage, Central China's Henan province is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization. Henan Museum, located in the province's capital city of Zhengzhou, welcomed more than 70,000 visitors during the May Day holiday. Yu Ru was on
New book spotlights 20th-century architectural heritageBy Yang Xiaoyu | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2023-05-08 14:0820th Century Architectural Heritage Reader. When it comes to architectural heritage, people cannot help but first think of architectural s
The gamelike Digital Library Cave program enables users to virtually witness, and participate in, the rise and fall of the Library Cave, or Cave 17, at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province.The impressive collection of literature in the Library Cave
A view of the Bell Tower in Xi'an city, Northwest China's Shaanxi province. Heritage: Key support to continueChina will further deepen ties with other Asian countries on cultural heritage protection and promote international cooperation in the field, Pres
A guide (right) introduces a Buddhist sculpture replicated by 3D printing at a Dunhuang-themed exhibition in Beijing. More countries have joined a key Asian framework on collaborative protection of cultural heritage across the continent, echoing a widely
By Aiman Nakispekova in Culture, Kazakhstan Regions on 22 April 2023ASTANA – Rare gold jewelry, remains of bird of prey, and 3,000 other items were found in the mounds in the Ayagoz district of the Abai Region at a depth of three meters, reported the Abai
The crisscrossing road network unearthed in Erlitou site in Luoyang, Henan province, shows how the ancient city was separated into grids with various functional domains. In some sections of the city, the roads were also walled.From million-year-old skulls
An interactive digital platform of a virtual duplication of the Library Cave in Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province, is accessible to the public from Tuesday.Jointly developed by the Dunhuang Academy
A new exhibition of 120 cultural treasures from China's Dunhuang Research Academy has opened in Northwest China's Gansu province. The institute helps oversee the 1,600-year-old Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site.Dedicated to chronicling the dive
The central axis stretches for 7.8 kilometers through the Chinese capital. Digital technology should be more widely used to protect and raise public awareness of monuments and heritage sites, experts and scholars said at an event in Beijing on Tuesday to
A competition in March to measure skills of archaeological excavation, part of the National Vocational Skills Competition on Cultural Relics, is underway in Taiyuan, Shanxi province.Archaeologists endure backbreaking work and long hours but every now and
A file photo of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. This April marks the fourth year since a devastating fire ravaged the Notre Dame Cathedral, a masterpiece of Gothic architecture built in the Middle Ages that has kept watch over the French capita
A selection of some of the pottery that has come from the Zhaojiaxuyao archaeological ruins. An ancient hominid site discovered in Zhaojiaxuyao village – administered by the city of Zibo, in East China's Shandong province – was named on March 28 as one of
A bird's-eye view of the Shuomen Ancient Port in Wenzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. The archaeological ruins of the Shuomen Ancient Port in Wenzhou were named one of China's top 10 new archaeological discoveries of 2022 on March 28, local media outl
URUMQI — Ice skates made of animal bones over 3,000 years old have been discovered for the first time in China at an archaeological site in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, according to a recent meeting on the region's archaeological wor
