Bust of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius was discovered by archaeologists during the repair work in the ancient Egyptian temple of Kom-Ombo in the south of the country. This was reported by the Ministry of Antiquities. The uniqueness of the find, it is n
Photo taken on April 20, 2018 shows weapons unearthed during an archaeological excavation at Pengshan district in Meishan city, Southwest China's Sichuan province.More than 12,000 items that sank to the bottom of a river in Sichuan province over 300 years
The thumb of a 2,000-year-old terracotta warrior was stolen while on display at the Franklin Institute. The cultural relics authority of Northwest China's Shaanxi province is formulating a plan to repair a terracotta warrior statue whose thumb was stolen
A visitor appreciates exhibits during the exhibition called "Ming Dynasty: The Radiance of Knowledge" at the Moscow Kremlin Museums in Moscow, Russia on April 16, 2018. Totally 83 pieces of treasures dating back to China's Ming Dynasty are shown
The Tongtiandong relics in Jeminay, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region -- Paleolithic, up to 45,000 years ago. In a cave at the crossroads of China, Central Asia and Europe, archeologists found remains dating back 3,500 to 45,000 years.It is the first Paleo
For a long time scientists could not understand how the Vikings traveled from Scandinavia by sea, overcoming thousands of nautical miles. It is known that they were fine navigators and in the 9-11th centuries reached Russia and Ireland, and in the 10th ce
In the Tibetan Autonomous Region, rock carvings of the Buddha, whose age exceeds one thousand years, were discovered.The statues were found in the Jagyab county of the city of Qamdo. Sculptors found builders who collected stones in the valley. The statues
(Courtesy Marina Kilunovskaya)Clockwise from top left: stone buckle, bronze buckle, and female burialOn the bankof a river in Siberia’s Tuva region, archaeologists have unearthed an Iron Age cemetery that held the remains of nobles of the Xiongnu Empire,
(Christian Eckmann/Copyright: RGZM, DAI Cairo and University of Tübingen)Clockwise from top left: wooden box, embossed gold sheet, and gold fragmentsAlthough the treasureof the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun’s grave, one of the most famous archaeological di
This Ataqeloula stele was discovered in November 2017 at the Sedeinga necropolis, which commemorates a woman from Sedeinga high society and prestigious members of her family.Credit: © Vincent Francigny/Sedeinga archaeological missionThe Meroitic insc
“We shouldn’t refuse to cooperate but we should politely yet firmly state our terms,” said one high-ranking EU diplomat, adding that Chinese firms must not receive preferential treatment in the awarding of public contracts.
From January to April in 2017, Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology with National Center of Underwater Cultural Heritage teamedup to conduct a joint archaeological excavation. The underwater excavation was carried out at the bot
People perform on the ceremony in memory of Zhang Qian, in Chenggu county, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, April 3, 2018. Zhang Qian, a royal emissary in China's Han Dynasty (202 BC -220 AD), traveled westward on a mission of peace and opened an overl
A visitor takes a photo of a Tang Dynasty silver sachet decorated with grape, flower and bird patterns at the Southern Song Dynasty Guan Kiln Museum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, April 3, 2018.The exhibitionChang'an in Spring: Access the Flourishing Tan
During the work on the inspection of the territory, where the railway to the Kerch bridge will run, archaeologists discovered ancient burials.In them samples of applied art of IV century BC have been found. These are fragments of antique ceramics, skillfu
