On the “Cultural and Natural Heritage Day” 9th, June, 2018, the “Silk Roads Cultural Heritage Protection Craftsmanship Alliance” was established in Hancheng, Shaanxi province.Aftercommunicationanddiscussion,theAdministrationsofCul- turalHeritageofShaanxi,
FromMarch24toApril2,VicePresidentledbyZhangXian- tang,theviceofDunhuangAcademy,thedelegationvisited Afghanistan,metwithpoliticalandacademiccircles,and surveyedthehistoricalandculturalheritagesofKabulProvince andBamyanProvince.Thevisitwasfruitful.ChineseAm
ThejointarchaeologicalworkbetweenChinaandUzbekistanhad achievedinitialresultsshowingthattheRabatcemeteryinthecityof BaysuninsouthernUzbekistanshouldbetheremainsoftheRouzhi. Thearchaeologicalachievementsenrichedtheunderstandingofthe culturalheritageofthean
TheArchaeologyInstituteofUCLandNorthwestUniversity(NWU) launchedajoint“NWU-UCLSilkRoadsArchaeologyandHeritage Centre”onApril13inNorthwestUniversity,China.Bothuniversity willcooperateinvariousaspectssuchasresearchandteaching andtheteachers'capacitybuilding
FromMay12to13,hostedbytheStateAdministrationofCulturalHeri- tageandShaanxiProvincialPeople'sGovernment,theInternationalSilk RoadsForumontheArchaeologicalViewwasorganizedbytheShaanxi ProvincialAdministrationCulturalHeritageofinXi'an.Expertsandschol- arsfro
Archaeologists from China and Great Britain came to the conclusion that before the state of Yin, which is considered the first ancient Chinese state formation, there was an ancient developed civilization. Its representatives were able to erect complex eng
The key to Roman mercantile power turned into a lake more than 500 years ago. Now, researchers think they’ve found it again. Andrew Masterson reports.
This figure shows images of the step pyramid. a) part of the stone buttresses of the second and the third steps of the pyramid; b) eye symbols that decorate the pyramid c) a view of the buttresses under excavation; d) a general view of the pyramid before
An ancient Buddha statue in Sichuan's Anyue county (left) is said to have been painted by local believers to make it colorful.The Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Cultural Heritage recently said that it had inspected two ancient stone carvings of Buddha in re
From September 2017 to January 2018, the archaeological team of Guangzhou Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology conducted a salvage archaeological excavation to Gancaoling Site. The site was located in Jiulong Town, Huangpu District, Guan
Archaeologists recently found a large number of kiln relics dating back to Sui Dynasty (581-618) in Jinan, east China's Shandong Province.The discovery was made at a site in Ningyang County. Nearly 10,000 pieces of kiln equipment and 1,000 items of porcel
A total of 58 silk fabrics dating back to the Song Dynasty (960-1276) are on exhibit in the city of Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu province.After ten years of restoration, the silk fabrics including handkerchiefs with inscriptions written by Bud
The before (L) and after (R) of the repair work that sparked criticism on social media. The botched restoration of a 1,000-year-old Buddha statue in Southwest China has sparked widespread shock and ridicule after photos of its cartoonish color scheme surf
Ancient cityCredit: Chinese Cultural RelicsA tomb dating back around 700 years, to a time when the descendants of Genghis Khan ruled China, has been discovered in Yangquan City, China. The octagon-shaped tomb is filled with murals and has a pyramid-shaped
Chinese archaeologists from across the country have recently embarked on a joint archaeological project in the Tibet Autonomous Region's Ngari Prefecture - the largest operation of its kind that the region has ever seen.Organized by China's State Administ
