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• Masterpieces of Chinese painting on exhibit in New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has one of the largest collections of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy. An exhibition dubbed 'Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the Metropolitan Collection' is giving visitors a chance to see these ancient wo

• Knot Possible! 3,000-Year-Old Thread Found in UK

An unusually delicate pair of artifacts recently emerged from a dig site in the United Kingdom: a tiny ball of thread and another length of thread wound around a bobbin. Both are estimated to be approximately 3,000 years old.

• Ancient animal statues show up in Beijing

An exhibition featuring animal-shaped cultural relics unearthed from the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th century-11th century) to the year 1949 is under way in Beijing. Apart from presenting the exquisite relics made by highly skilled ancient craftsmen, the exhibi

• Germany Pass a new Conservation Act

Recently, the German Bundestag adopted a new Law on the Protection of Cultural Property. German State Minister of Culture Monika Grütters emphasized that the new Law on the Protection of Cultural Property will more effectively protect the precious cultura

• Satellite-Based Damage Assessment of Cultural Heritage Sites(Iraq, Nepal, Syria & Yemen)

Thanks to the Memorandum of Understanding signed between UNESCO and UNITAR in 2015, and building on our previous report on damage to archeological sites in Syria (2014), satellite imagery analysis is now a routine tool for assessing potential damage to cu

• China to crack down on damage to Great Wall

The State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH) will launch acampaign to crack down on criminal damage to the Great Wall.

• Roman Ceramic Factory Found in Israel

The Israel Antiquities Authority announced that excavations in Shlomi, a town near the Lebanon border, have revealed a ceramic factory where storage jars and vessels for wine and oil would have been made 1,600 years ago. Archaeologists working at the site

• Silk Roads Culture and History co-build communication channel

In mid-to-late June, Samarkand, small scattered earth yellow houses and glazed turquoise spire add radiance and beauty to each other in the blue sky and white clouds. This ancient city in Middle Asia, which located in the heartland of the ancient Silk Roa

• Terracotta exhibition opened in Osaka Japan

In the afternoon of July.4th, the exhibition entitled Emperor Shihuang and His Terracotta Army organized by the SPBCH and Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Promotion Center was opened in the International Art Gallery of Osaka Japan,the third stop of itinerant exh

• ISTANBUL DECLARATION ON THE PROTECTION OF WORLD HERITAGE

We, members of the World Heritage Committee, gathered in Istanbul today on 11 July 2016 on the occasion of its 40th session, declare the following:

• New Inscription of World Heritage List 2016

2016-07-19 BEJ/CLTUNESCOIstanbul, Turkey, 15 July—The World Heritage Committee, meeting for its 40th session since 10 July, this morning inscribed four new sites in China, India, Iran and Micronesia on the World Heritage List. Nan Madol: Ceremonial Centre

• Zuojiang Huashan rock painting named a world heritage

The Zuojiang Huashan rock painting, from Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, has been listed on the World Heritage List at the UNESCO World Heritage Committee's 40th Session in Istanbul, Turkey, today.

• Significant achievements of excavations and surveys of ancient Koguryo Mountain City, Liaoning Province

Ancient Koguryo Mountain City is located in Gaizhou City, Liaoning Province and situated at the foot of a mountain. It has a general plane of Chinese character “凸” and a perimeter of about 6000m.

• Ancient Logbook Documenting Great Pyramid's Construction Unveiled

A logbook that contains records detailing the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza has been put on public display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

• Ancient Tubo stone inscriptions in SW China

Two pieces of stone with inscriptions in ancient Tibetan are seen in Shiqu county, Southwest China's Sichuan province, June 28, 2016. These stone inscriptions, all carved during the period of ancient Tubo, a Tibetan regime in ancient China, were listed as

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