Workers pull weeds at the Yuanying Guan ruins at Yuanmingyuan, or Old Summer Palace, in preparation for a project to preserve the standing pillars. The surviving remnants of columns and gates in Beijing's Yuanmingyuan - or Old Summer Palace - will be rein
The Terracotta Warriors in the Emperor Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum is a must-see in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province. Photos provided to China DailyXI'AN - The Emperor Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum in Northwest China's Shaanxi pro
TheJiankou Great Wall in Huairou district of Beijing. Intel and China Foundation for Cultural Heritage Conservation reached an agreement on Wednesday to launch a project applying cutting-edge technology in preservation of a section of the Great Wall in Be
The Palace Museum in Beijing signed an agreement with a charity fund run by German automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz on Monday to promote cultural heritage conservation, scientific research and
The Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage released draft guidance for Great Wall renovations on Tuesday, setting different criteria for each type of wall.
Hundreds of years ago, the urge and instinct of self preservation and security made China’s leaders, emperors in the past dynasties, to embark on most daring and arduous measures – the building of walls hundreds of kilometers in and around most capitals a
The ancient site of Göbeklitepe located in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa is getting ready to be added to the UNESCO World Heritage List with a new roof protection.
Beijing plans to recruit 30 junior high school students and train them into becoming professionals at restoring cultural relics for the Forbidden City amid a shortage of such talents, according to Beijing Youth Daily.
The exhibition is being held with the cooperation of French jewelry brand Chaumet, which was founded in 1780 and later appointed by Napoleon to design jewelry for the royal family.
Local authorities in Beijing have beefed up security for the Ming imperial tombs afterseveral cultural relics were reported missing in March, an incident that reveals the laxity ofChina’s historic preservation efforts.
An exhibition titled "Highlighted Results of the Recent Three-Year Inventory of the Palace Museum Permanent Collection" is ongoing at the Palace Museum in Beijing.
The Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, has 1,862,690 cultural relics registered in its collection as of the end of 2016, according to Shan Jixiang, curator of the museum, on Wednesday.
The Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City, said on Wednesday it has added about 55,000 cultural artifacts to its inventory, some found in storage and others uncovered while renovating a kitchen.
The remains of a fortification built about 550 years ago have been found in central China's Hunan province, said archaeologists on Wednesday.The walls, resembling the Great Wall, stretches 18.4 kilometers on hills, with 12.3 kilometers well-preserved in t