More than 300 cultural treasures unearthed from the 13th and 14th centuries are exhibited at the Guangdong Museum in South China's Guangzhou city, illustrating the prosperous ceramic trade in East Asia along the ancient maritime Silk Road. Items on displa
The Borobudur Temple complex is located 42 km north-west of the city of Yogyakarta, the capital of Central Java, and is the national pride of Indonesia. Borobudur is the largest monumental structure of the Southern Hemisphere, the third of the Buddhist-Hi
The horse likely swiveled its ears when it heard the deafening roar from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. That was one of the last things the animal ever did: After that, it died, buried in the massive amounts of ash that killed about 30,000 people anddestroyed
Wang Chen Yang, Deputy Director of Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage, said over 3,700 nation-wide activities, including an exhibition and discussion forum on the Maritime Silk Road, which is part of the Belt Road Initiative (BRI), will be held t
A group of scientists, archaeologists and economists from the University of Oxford, the Norwegian Institute for Air Research and the University of Copenhagen, investigated ice samples from the northern regions of Greenland to measure the amount of lead em
The researchers studied two labels that were found on ceramic vessels. Scientists have established that a ship that sank in the Java Sea could sink to the bottom a century earlier than previously thought. The opening helped to make the trademarks of the a
During excavations of a previously unexplored territory in Pompeii archaeologists discovered a street where several two-story buildings with three large balconies were located. Many of the buildings remained intact.On the walls of some houses, the colors
Human bones found in an shipwreck in southern China may be evidence that foreign sailors worked in China 800 years ago.Several bone fragments were found in the Nanhai No.1, a cargo vessel that sank in the Yangjiang River during the South Song Dynasty (112
The GreatShangqinggong Temple was located at the foot of Longhu Mountain, Yingtan City, Jiangxi Province. Thanks to a four-year excavation, Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology together with Yingtan Museum made a systemic archae
From May to November in 2017, Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics together with other institutes conducted a comprehensive survey and mapping, as well as exploration and excavation to the Taizicheng village , covering an area of 6400 square mete
More than 90 ancient cliff tombs, dating back to as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), have recently been found in southwest China's Sichuan Province, authorities said Monday.The salvage excavation was carried out from July 2017 to March 2018 in J
Visitors admire the image of a reclining Buddha that was presented using 3D technology during an exhibition in Shanghai on Wednesday. The exhibition, which features images from the Mogao Grottoes, presents 100 artifacts related to the ancient Silk Road. I
Archaeologists excavate at the Shimen Pagoda ruins in Chujiang town, Shimen county of Hunan province, May 9, 2018. An archaeological excavation is underway at the Shimen Pagoda ruins in Chujiang town, Shimen county of Hunan province. So far, around 6,500
Archaeologists have discovered the lost city of Mardaman, the remains of which are pictured here. It is located in northern Iraq near a modern-day town called Bassetki. It was inhabited for thousands of years. The remains left by its ancient inhabitants f
A senior official from China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) said cultural industry shall be legally protected as it is “going global”.
