Staff members install a Pompeii sculpture at the Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum, Feb 5. The exhibitionPompeii, the Infinite Lifefeaturing ancient Roman relics will open at the Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan provinc
Almost half a million people are expected to visit a stunning exhibition featuring the famous Terracotta Warriors which is to open to the public in Liverpool on Friday.Ahead of the opening, curators from National Museums Liverpool (NML) and a team from th
Xi'an celebrates Xi'an wind and percussion ensemble on China Cultural Heritage Day, June 12, 2010. Festive, grand in structure and elegant in style. Xi'an Guyue, also known as Xi'an wind and percussion ensemble, has been played for more than a millennium
A dog-themed relics exhibition opened at the National Museum of China in Beijing, on Jan 30, 2017. More than 100 precious relics and artifacts including traditional painting, paper-cuts, jade sculptures and Lunar New Year's paintings have been chosen for
An exhibition, entitledThe Echo of Civilization – Ancient Treasures from Afghanistan, opens at the Chengdu Museum in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China’s Sichuan province, Feb 1, 2017. The exhibit showcases more than 231 sets of relics from the National
More than 1,100 cultural artifacts recovered after a robbery are displayed in Xi'an. Authorities are determined to capture and punish professional criminals who break into ancient graves and steal age-old treasures, as Zhang Yan reports.Turning a corner n
Late minister Zhang Naiqi's collection of antiquities are on display in Beijing. Lin Qi reports.Historian Zhang Lifan recalls his childhood home in a siheyuan, the traditional quadrangle-style courtyard house of Beijing, being decorated with hardwood furn
File photo shows chime debris with inscriptions at the ruins of a government office building, which was believed to be a musical department of the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.), in Northwest China's Shaanxi province. The ruins, 110 meters long and 19.5 meter
The Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an. XI'AN -- British scholar Edward Burman has published a new book detailing the history and recent discoveries about Terracotta Wa
A visitor takes a picture of an antique mirror displayed at an exhibition themed on Maritime Silk Road in Xi’an, Jan 31. An exhibition themed on the Maritime Silk Road and exquisite mirrors opened at the Museum of Xi’an Tang Imperial City Hangguang Entran
File photo shows a full view of Lushan Mao relics site, in Baota district of Yan’an of Shaanxi province. Archaeological discoveries at Lushan Mao relics site in Baota district of Yan'an of Shaanxi province date back to 4,500 years, which may push Yan’an f
In 1912 the shepherds from the village of Malaya Pereshchepina of the Poltava province came across a sandstone on one of the largest treasures in Europe, containing articles of gold and silver. A c
Three thousand arrowheads and 10 bronze artifacts in the form of snakes, possibly of> In addition, the researchers found clay urns and a large number of fragments of vessels. According to archaeolo
Archaeologists have begun excavating in an area known as the Valley of Monkeys, looking for the tomb of Ankhesenamun.
(S. Wadyl)Science in Polandreports that a rotary knife that may have been used by a medieval scribe was found in a hearth in a building at a castle site in northern Poland. The four-inch-long knife has two blades and is estimated to date to the eighth or
