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• Terracotta figurines reveal athletic culture in ancient China

The figurines, from Luoyang Museum and Luoyang Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, show some of the sports ancient people participated in, which reflect the rich and unique athletic culture in ancient China.

• Ancient Israel: A Brief History

When scholars refer to "ancient Israel," they often refer to the tribes, kingdoms and dynasties formed by the ancient Jewish people in the Levant (an area that encompasses modern-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria).

• International Academic Symposium on Sanxingdui Relics and World’s Ancient Civilizations and Commemoration of 30th Anniversary of the Discovery of Sanxingdui Sacrifice Pits Held

International Academic Symposium on Sanxingdui Relics and World’s Ancient Civilizations and Commemoration of 30th Anniversary of the Discovery of Sanxingdui Sacrifice Pits Held

• Conservation of Underwater Cultural Heritage in China (Video)

搜索复制View on youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rw1LAJzXYAfeature=youtu.be

• 7 Bizarre Ancient Cultures That History Forgot

The ancient Egyptians had their pyramids, the Greeks, their sculptures and temples. And everybody knows about the Maya and their famous calendar.But other ancient peoples get short shrift in world history. Here are a handful of long-lost cultures that don

• New Discovery of the Most Intact Prehistoric Cemetery—Gaoshan City-Site in Chengdu Plain

This excavation confirmed that the earliest and most intact pre-historical cemetery in Chengdu Plain, which provide important archaeological material for Neolithic demography, ethnology, pathology in Chengdu Plain

• Full speech by Irina Bokova, on the opening ceremony of 40th WHC

First and foremost, let me express my gratitude to the Prime Minister of Turkey for this important message. And to express on behalf of UNESCO and in my own name, my deepest sympathy and condolences after the horrendous terrorist attack against the people

• Full speech on opening ceremony of Beiting (Bashbaliq) Institute, by Mr. Guo Zhan

搜索复制Beiting Study Research Institute was established and its first symposium achieved an unbelievable success. Heavyweight predecessors and scholars participated in the symposium with Mr. Meng Fanren and Ms. An Jiayao in place. On the premise of "Be

• Roman Views of the Chinese in Antiquity

How did the ancient Romans view the Chinese? In this short essay I briefly analyze Roman imaginings of the “Seres,” as the Romans of the ancient Mediterranean world called the natives of China. During the Roman Empire, in the first to third centuries A

• Xianyang—the No. 1 Capital City of China

Since 770BC when the State of Qin was established, it had never been hesitant in accumulating national strength and carrying out its eastward expansion. While expanding to the east, Qin moved its capital city eastward to Yongcheng and then Xianyang, the t

• Ancient Roman Soldier with Ornate Belt Discovered in UK Grave

The 1,600-year-old remains of a middle-age man buried alongside an ornate belt decorated with images of dolphins and dogs have been found in a grave in Leicester, England, archaeologists report.

• 23 More Wrecks Found at Greek Hotspot for Sunken Ships

搜索复制Fourni, which is a collection of small islands near Turkey, was a popular anchorage and navigational point for Aegean crossing routes. Usually it was safe for ships, but over thousands of years, storms inevitably claimed some vessels, like this wooden

• Ancient Shrine That May Hold Buddha's Skull Bone Found in Crypt

Archaeologists have discovered what may be a skull bone from the revered Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. The bone was hidden inside a model of a stupa, or a Buddhist shrine used for meditation.

• Discovery of high-level building group and walled settlement in Sanxingdui site

In 2015, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology conducted the new excavation season of the Sanxingdui site. So far high-level building group and walled settlement at the Qingguanshan terrace, walls at the Lijiayuanzi and the w

• Nomads and Oasis Cities: Central Asia from the 9th to the 13th Century

During the three to four centuries after the declineand demise of the Tang Dynasty (618–907) in theearly 9th century, the steppe nomads launched a seriesof imperial ventures. Several Turkish groups, havingadopted Buddhism or Islam in Central Asia, invaded

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