©UNESCO Ministry of Foreign Affairs, TurkmenistanFollowing the Fifth Meeting of the Coordinating Committee on Serial Transnational World Heritage Nomination of the Silk Roads, 4–5 December 2018, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, the participants including nat
Officials in charge of the Old Summer Palace in northwestern Beijing have announced plans to refurbish one of the original landmarks of the Imperial Garden which had – until recently – been lost to time.Announcing on Monday the results of an archaeologica
Qingtang Site in Yingde city, Guangdong province. The Archaeological Forum of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing announced six new archaeological discoveries in China in 2018 on Thursday, including Qingtang Site in Yingde city, Guangdong pr
(National Museum of Denmark)Medieval drinking hornThe last aurochs, the wild ancestor of domesticated cattle and a favorite game animal up to the medieval period in Europe, died at a game preserve in Poland in 1627. Now a group of Scandinavian researchers
Researchers say these chalk cylinders, carved more than 4,000 years ago, give the exact length measurements used to lay out Neolithic monuments like Stonehenge.Credit: British MuseumA set of highly decorated chalk cylinders, carved in Britain more than 4,
Dutch art detective Arthur Brand poses with two limestone Visigoth reliefs from the seventh century in London on Jan. 20, 2019.Credit: Niklas Halle'n/AFP/GettyIn 2004, two chunky limestone reliefs depictingCatholic saintswere stolen from a medieval church
Invited by the National Commission for UNESCO Republic of Tajikistan, coordinated by IICC-X, a delegation visited Tajikistan during January 14-20, 2019
The Liujiawa cemetery is located in the west of the Liujiawa village, the town of Wangzhuang, Chengcheng city in Shaanxi province. It was discovered due to tomb-looting, following which a salvage excavation along with a regional systematic survey in the s
In 366 AD in Dunhuang, China, the monk Lezun excavated the first cave that comprises the Mogao Grottoes. Protecting the Dunhuang murals is now a race against time.Let the guardian of the murals share secrets of heritage protection and tell you about how p
中国观察文物保护与利用学术研讨会2016年全国文物工作会上，总书记对文物工作作出“努力走出一条符合国情的文物保护利用之路”的重要指示。这一命题的提出，事关优秀传统文化资源的保护传承，事关中华文化的伟大复兴以及对外传播，引起了相关行业和部门的高度重视。为深入贯彻落实总书记的重要指示精神，在国家文物局的支持下，中国文化遗产研究院申报了国家社科基金项目“符合国情的文物保护利用之路研究”，经全国哲 ...
Military officer’s stable preserved under ash from eruption of Mount Vesuvius
An important Christian site has just been discovered inCypruswith mosaics which bear clear inscriptions in Greek, according to an Athens Macedonia News Agency (AMNA) report.The excavation, conducted on the Akrotirio peninsula by theDepartment of Antiquiti
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the UNESCO Cluster Office in Tehran, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and the Turkmen National Commission for UNESCO, is organizing the 5th meeting of the Coordinating Committee of th
47 heritage sites and more than 70 pieces of relics were found at the middle and lower reaches of the Keriya River in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Recently, 47 heritage sites and more than 70 pieces of relics were found at the middl
On July 4, “Seals”the Silk Roads—Exhibition of Works of Seal Carving of Cities' Name along the Silk Roads was held at Xi’an JiaotongUniversity Museum by the ICOMOS International Conservation Center-Xi'an (IICC-X).On June 22, 2014, the transnational nomina
The ICOMOS International Conservation Center-Xi'an(IICC-X) organizedthe first photographic exhibition of "the Silk Roads: Beauty of the World Cultural Heritage" in 2018. The exhibition has built a platform for photographers to exchange their und
2018 marks the 26th anniversaryof the establishment of diplomatic relationsbetween China and Kazakhstan. In order to promote and expand the cultural exchanges between China and Kazakhstan, and respond to the "Belt and Road Initiative",Heritage o
Photos by Greek Ministry of CultureThe last five years of archaeological research and excavation in central Greece’s Petroto village, near the Trikala area, has unearthed a major settlement that dates back to the late Bronze Age.The village of Petroto on
Thessaloniki’s Panagia ton Chalkeon (the Virgin Mary of Chalki) church is from the 11th century. Photo by wikipediaAn agreement called “The Charter for the Protection of theByzantineHeritage Monuments” wasunanimouslyratified this weekend after a three-day
Credit: Jakob Bådagård/Public domainAncient playBoard and dice games have been a popular activity across almost all human societies for thousands of years — in fact, they are so ancient that it's unknown which game is the oldest or the original,
A distinctive pattern of holes scored into the rock of an ancient shelter in Azerbaijan are the remains of a board for one of the world's oldest games.Credit: Walter Crist/Gobustan National ParkA pattern of small holes cut into the floor of an ancient roc
Chris2018-08-18 19:37来源：澎湃新闻字号“……元狩元年，博望侯张骞使大夏来，言居大夏时见蜀布、邛竹、杖，使问所从来，曰‘身毒国，可数千里，得蜀贾人市’。……于是天子（汉武帝）乃令……指求身毒国。至滇，……莫能通身毒国。”——司马迁《史记·西南夷列传第五十六》最初没有打算来上信德。这里毕竟不如下信德的卡拉奇和塔塔古城有吸引力。我在一个摄影网站上，找到一些巴基斯坦人，然后发信征求他们的意见。第一个回复 ...
(Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, via Wikimedia Commons)OSAKA, JAPAN—The Mainichireports that an investigation of Daisen Kofun, a large, keyhole-shaped burial mound on the island of Honshu, has revealed that one of the dykes surroun
In 1974, Chinese peasants who were digging a well, suddenly stumbled upon fragments of some kind of ceramics, and then on the shoulders of a statue of baked clay. The peasants reacted to the find as befits a well-educated people, which they really were no
The International Training Seminar on the Management and Nomination for World Heritage of the Silk Roads successfully completed in Xi'an by IICC-X.
The Workshop on the South Asian Silk Roads Serial and Transnational World Heritage Nomination Process Held in Xi’an
The fall of the Roman Empire may have been a partial result of the decade of famine and plague that began in A.D. 536, the authors of a new study say.Credit: Thomas Cole/ New York Historical SocietyIn A.D. 536, Europe had a terrible, horrible, no-good, ve
Emma Maayan-Fanar was looking for shade from the desert sun when she saw the face of Jesus.The art historian from the University of Haifa in Israel had been studying crucifixes and other motifs on the stone lintels of the ancient churches and houses of th
Residents of Yangchun tell Dutch court of importance of Buddha statue which contains mummified remains
Five Greek municipalities and the Hellenic Archaeologists Association have appealed to the Greek Council of State, the country’s highest administrative court, calling for the abolition of the ministerial decisions that will allow ownership of national his
An ancient city in Germany tells a different story of the Roman conquest
UNESCO condemns the intentional destruction of the Ahmed Al-Faz Mosque and Mausoleum in Hodeida, located on the coast approximately 30km from the World Heritage property of the Historic Town of Zabid. The General Organization of Antiquities and Museums (G
The main cave that Aristotle and Alexander the Great used as school. Photo by sxoliaristotelous.grA place of universal historic and cultural interest, the ruins of the School ofAristotlelocated are just two miles from the contemporary town of Naoussa, in
CAT archaeologists kneel next to a brick plinth that would have originally supported the timber frame of the c. 1520 house.Credit: Colchester Borough CouncilWhen a gang of goons rammed their Toyota truck into the side of a 500-year-old house in the Englis
ICIP (the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Interpretation and Presentation) very much looks forward to welcoming participants to the 2018 conference: ‘Critical issues in Heritage Interpretation and Sustainable Tourism’, taking place in Florenc
Every year, disasters caused by natural hazards affect millions of people around the world. The resultant human losses are tragic and highlight the vulnerabilities shared by our societies.
Workers paint the Red Palace, part of the Potala Palace, during annual renovation work following the end of the rainy season in Lhasa, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, Oct 23, 2018. The painting work will take one week. A retiree from the Potala
Everyday life inAncient Athensof the Hellenistic era was more exciting than in most ancient cities mainly due to the fact that Greeks had theater, great philosophers, were involved in politics, many were into athletics, and had developed the art of the di
The ongoing research in Akrotiri onSantorinigradually has revealed a place of rituals, very close to Xesti 3, an important public building with rich fresco decorations on the southern boundary of the settlement.According to archaeologists, theexcavationfi
UNESCO / Japanese Funds-in-Trust Project"Support for Silk Roads World Heritage Sites in Central Asia (Phase II)"Central Asian Sub-Regional Workshop Development of Management Strategies for Silk Roads Corridors3-4 October 2018 Almaty, Kazakhstan
在联合国教科文组织/日本信托基金项目框架下，联合国教科文组织驻阿拉木图办事处与世界遗产中心、联合国教科文组织驻塔什干办事处和哈萨克斯坦共和国文化体育部合作，于 2018年10月2日至4日在阿拉木图共同组织了本次次区域研讨会。费尔干纳-锡尔河廊道工作小组次区域协调会议以及“制定中亚丝绸之路遗产廊道管理战略”次区域研讨会，汇集了来自联合国教科文组织各部门和全国委员会的代表，以及来自哈萨克斯坦、吉尔吉斯斯坦、塔吉 ...
由国家文物局、国际文化财产保护与修复研究中心（ICCROM）及澳门特别行政区政府社会文化司主办，中国文化遗产研究院、澳门特别行政区政府文化局承办，中国古迹遗址保护协会、澳门旅游学院协办的“2018年度世界遗产监测管理培训班”今天（10月19日）圆满结束并举行结业仪式。
Non-invasive technique devised by British Museum sheds light on dyeing and weaving process
A group of archaeologists from Italy examined the remains of those who died as a result of the eruption of the volcano Vesuvius in 79 AD and found out that most of them had a head blast. Their research is published in the scientific journal Plos One.The e
This miniature artwork shows Pope Joan, who has just given birth to an infant during a Church procession.Credit: The New York Public LibraryMedieval legends claim that Pope Joan was the first and only female pope. And now, an analysis of ancient silver co
2018年10月8日至19日，由国家文物局、澳门特区政府社会文化司、国际文化财产保护与修复研究中心联合主办的2018年“世界遗产监测管理培训班”在澳门特别行政区举办。
首次由联合国教科文组织主导的中德文化交流“遗产保护助力可持续发展”2018年9月26–30日 德国柏林 –“文化在可持续发展中发挥着关键作用，但整合文化的各个方面并非易事，这需要跨领域、跨国界的有力的多方合作。”联合国教科文组织世界遗产中心亚太部主任景峰博士在首次由联合国教科文组织主导的中德文化交流“遗产保护助力可持续发展”研讨会上表示。中德文化交流代表团 此次交流由联合国教科文组织驻华代表处主
(Courtesy of the Institute of Archaeology/Russian Academy of Sciences)Bronze Corinthian helmet, Taman PeninsulaArchaeologists have discovereda bronze Corinthian helmet in the burial of several fifth-century B.C. Greek warriors in southwestern Russia. This
This is a geological amber sample from Cuchía, analysed as part of the study.Credit: M. Murillo-Barroso and Alvaro Fernandez FloresAmber and other unusual materials such as jade, obsidian and rock crystal have attracted interest as raw materials for the m
The Smithsonian’s elegant Haliphat of Palmyra and the blue-eyed Miriam from Yemen raise awareness of the illegal trade in and destruction of antiquities
Archaeologists from China and Great Britain came to the conclusion that before the state of Yin, which is considered the first ancient Chinese state formation, there was an ancient developed civilization. Its representatives were able to erect complex eng
FromMay12to13,hostedbytheStateAdministrationofCulturalHeri- tageandShaanxiProvincialPeople'sGovernment,theInternationalSilk RoadsForumontheArchaeologicalViewwasorganizedbytheShaanxi ProvincialAdministrationCulturalHeritageofinXi'an.Expertsandschol- arsfro
A 1,600-year-old Christian church covered by the waters of Turkey’s Lake Iznik is giving up some of its secrets to archaeologists.The church was built around A.D. 390 on the shore of the lake beside the city of Nicaea, as Iznik was then known.But it was d
2018年7月12日晚7点，剑桥大学蒙古与内亚研究中心项目协调人Mr.Bruce Huett应邀在四川大学中国藏学研究所演讲。Mr.Huett此次讲座的题目为“喜马拉雅区域传统造纸术的复兴：历史、文化与经济”。我所徐君教授担任讲座主持人，玉珠措姆老师任翻译，Hildegard Diemberger教授也出席了讲座，讲座吸引了众多师生到场聆听。Mr.Huett首先简单回顾了自己对喜马拉雅区域造纸
资讯原文作者：Mariacristina Ferraioli原文日期：2018年8月11日翻译日期：2018年8月17日翻译人：Shui校对：Lisa原文链接：http://www.artribune.com/progettazione/new-media/2018/08/uffizi-online-archivi-digitali/正文乌菲兹征服了网络。在几天之前，我们就发布过“乌菲兹博物馆的I
Archaeologists from China and Great Britain came to the conclusion that before the state of Yin, which is considered the first ancient Chinese state formation, there was an ancient developed civilization. Its representatives were able to erect complex eng
August 19, 2018 marks the 179th World Photography Day. Photography immediately became popular in Europe since it was first devised in 1839 by Mande Daguerre, a French artist.It wasn't until the Second Opium War (1856 - 1860) that some foreign photographer
The before (L) and after (R) of the repair work that sparked criticism on social media. The botched restoration of a 1,000-year-old Buddha statue in Southwest China has sparked widespread shock and ridicule after photos of its cartoonish color scheme surf
Studies of ancient plant remains from a medieval archaeological site in the Pamir Mountains of Uzbekistan have shown that fruits, such as apples, peaches, apricots, and melons, were cultivated in the foothills of Inner Asia. The archaeobotanical study is
近现代建筑保护专委会 Association For Neoteric Architecture Preservation Technology2018年8月10-11日，中国文物保护技术协会近现代建筑保护专业委员会将在成都召开2018年度大会暨“近现代历史建筑保护技术研讨会”，现将有关事项通知如下，欢迎各理事单位、委员、会员及其他有意列席会议的人员参加会议。▼近现代建筑保护委员会铭牌❶PART
ICOMOS(国际古迹遗址理事会）2017年度报告中文版由IICC-X（国际古迹遗址理事会西安国际保护中心）提供无偿翻译。点击此处下载PDF版本：http://www.icomoschina.org.cn/uploads/download/20180809153240_download.pdf
During the excavations in the city of Sintana in the Judas of Arad, a fortress was built in Romania, built 3,4 thousand years ago. It was 3 times more famous Troy. If the fortifications of Troy were located on an area of 29 hectares, the are
An ancient village site dating back to the Han Dynasty (202 BC - 220 AD) has been found in Southwest China's Sichuan province, local archaeological authorities said Thursday.The site, dubbed Qiaojinshangjie Site, is located around a college in Xinjin coun
↑ 点击上方“航旅悦读”关注我们 祁连山： 哺育河西走廊的生命之源文/Y.C.铁穆尔·稻城在中国的地形图上，一条高耸挺拔的山脉横亘在甘肃省和青海省之间，俯视着河西走廊，这就是古时被匈奴称为“天山”的祁连山。祁连山是一座对河西走廊举足轻重的山，从祁连山发源的河流滋养着河西走廊的绿洲。祁连山不仅仅是地理意义上的高峰，更是不同民族精神的巅峰。在中国的名山大川中，祁连山对大众来说并不陌生，它横亘在甘肃
