The sacred plaza, seen here, was at the heart of Girsu. A cultic area that had over 300 broken ceremonial objects was recently uncovered near its entrance.(Image: © S. Rey/Tello/Girsu Project)Archaeologists recently unearthed a 5,000-year-old cul
Tight wrapping in childhood produced deliberately deformed skulls.
Photo: AMNAA proto-Byzantine-era skull which was discovered by anthropologists in the Paliokastro area onThasosisland shows signs of complicated surgery, according to a new Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) report.The skull, which dates from the earlyB
Archaeologists digitally reconstructed the leopard image from fragments of a sarcophagus cover.(Image: © University of Milan)Excavation of an ancient city of the dead in Aswan, Egypt, recently uncovered pieces of a sarcophagus lid that had been d
File photo shows the drainage system excavated in the Pingliangtai Ancient City ruins in Huaiyang, Central China's Henan province. Archaeologists have unearthed a number of pottery drain pipes at a Neolithic site of Longshan Culture dating back more than
The Xiwubi site in Jiangxian county, North China's Shanxi province. China has unveiled 20 candidates for the final selection of its top 10 archaeological discoveries in 2019, according to the official website of the National Cultural Heritage Administrati
(Museum of London)Havering Hoard, East London, EnglandAn extraordinary collectionof bronze tools and weapons was recovered at a construction site near the Thames in East London. Dubbed the Havering Hoard, the assemblage comprises 453 artifacts dated to be
For thousands of years,in a field next to the site of the Palace of Nestor in Pylos in mainland Greece, tens of thousands of watermelon-sized stones protected two Bronze Age tombs dating to between 1600 and 1500 B.C., the very beginning of the Mycenaean e
Scientists have debated for years over why Bronze Age wall paintings at the ancient settlement of Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini depict monkeys who originated from thousands of miles away in Asia.Some say that the artworks suggest that ancient
Ancient Greeks had a great love and respect for their dogs, cherishing them as companions, protectors, and hunters, as evidenced by several dog tombstones discovered over the centuries.The most well-known story about the relationship between ancient Greek
The orchestra of the ancient theater in Thouria. Photo credit: Greek Culture MinistryThe ancient Greek city of Thouria, located in the southernPeloponnese,is among the cities which managed to thrive and become important centers all by themselves in the wi
This photo contest is an annual visual studies and educa -tional initiative designed to promote the common heritageof the Silk Roads. It of ficially launches on 19 September2019 and is open to participants aged 14-25 living in ortravelling along the Silk
The groundbreaking ceremony of the construction projectof Gansu Jiandu documentation museum was held in Lanzhouon 31st July. The museum, which includes one floorunderground and four-story main building above ground,is scheduled to be completed and open to
The "Shared Culture and the Unified Desting-XinjiangCultural Relics Exhibition" jointly organized by theNational Museum of China and the Museum of XinjiangUygur Autonomous Region, opened in Hall 1 of theNational Museum of China on 9th July . The
Over the past five years since the "Silk Roads: Route Network o fChang'an-Tianshan Corridor" project had been successfullyinscribed on the World Heritage List, Shaanxi had fulfilled its internationalcommitments, promoted exchanges and mutual lea
