A series of negligent events regarding a 2,700-year-old Hittite stela over the course of a year demonstrated the ways in which Turkey still needs to adopt consistent and more effective measures in protecting its rich cultural heritage.
Archaeologists and conservation experts met in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the safe transportation of King Tutankhamun's throne, chests and bed from the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo to a new one being built on the other side of the Egyptian capital.
Tombs decorated with well-preserved mosaics showing Oceanus and Medusa of the Greek mythology found during excavations in 2003 in the ancient city of Perga will be put on display soon.
Asia's ancient highland network was structured by ecological strategies of nomadic herders
An ancient funerary stele, unearthed last year during construction work in the Central Anatolian province of Konya’s Ereğli district and claimed to have been sold, was found on May 3 buried in the garden of the digging company.
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a nearly 4,000 year old model garden outside a tomb in the ancient Egyptian capital of Thebes, the antiquities ministry said on Wednesday.
In China's National Center for the Performing Arts, "Boat in Dream," a large piece of wooden artwork from Greece, attracts many visitors. Created by Greek artist Vangelis Rinas, the artwork was carved with a prose poem in braille praising the fr
Chaiyos Charoensantipong, an archaeologist from the 3rd Fine Arts Office supervising the excavation, said that workers on Saturday removed a brick from a 10-centimetre-thick wall on the base of the main Buddha image and found the jars.
Last year, the discovery of an ax head on a mountaintop overlooking Norway’s Trondheim Fjord led archaeologists to a tenth-century Viking grave. Though they found no remains, the team recovered a sword and a shield boss. The discovery seemed routine, unti
"As long as the culture lives, the nation lives," said Shan Jixiang, head of China's Palace Museum, at the opening ceremony to the exhibition Afghanistan - Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul.
Inner Mongolia autonomous region in North China has started the process of having the Juyan archeological site recognized with a UNESCO cultural heritage listing, said local authorities on Wednesday.
After an absence of nearly two decades, the 1,300-year-old Dengyu Stone Tower eventually came back home in North China's Shanxi province.
Visitors watch the art creations from Louvre Museum at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum in Hong Kong, South China, April 25, 2017. A total of 126 pieces of art were displayed during the exhibition "Inventing le Louvre: From Palace to Museum over 800 Yea
China's cultural heritage experts say more needs to be done to protect the sites linked to the ancient scholar, Wang Kaihao reports.
Over 4,000 smuggled historical artifacts have been repatriated to Turkey between 2004 and 2016, a professor of archeology said Tuesday, as country spends tremendous effort to prevent smuggling of historical artifacts.
