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
Visitors look at reproduced work of the 285th Cave of the Mogao Grottoes.Exhibition titledDigital Dunhuang, the Story of Heaven and Earthopened at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum on July 10, alluring visitors to savor the splendid Dunhuang culture.Organized
More than 300 cultural treasures unearthed from the 13th and 14th centuries are exhibited at the Guangdong Museum in South China's Guangzhou city, illustrating the prosperous ceramic trade in East Asia along the ancient maritime Silk Road. Items on displa
An exhibition featuring replicas of the renowned Mogao Grottoes is underway at the Shanghai Tower, the tallest building in China. In the next 10 months, visitors will be able to have a close look at three life-size replicas of the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang,
The Tongtiandong relics in Jeminay, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region -- Paleolithic, up to 45,000 years ago. In a cave at the crossroads of China, Central Asia and Europe, archeologists found remains dating back 3,500 to 45,000 years.It is the first Paleo
A visitor takes a photo of a Tang Dynasty silver sachet decorated with grape, flower and bird patterns at the Southern Song Dynasty Guan Kiln Museum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, April 3, 2018.The exhibitionChang'an in Spring: Access the Flourishing Tan
People visit an exhibition entitledThe Echo of Civilization – Ancient Treasures from Afghanistanat the Chengdu Museum in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province, on Feb 28, 2017. The exhibit showcases more than 231 sets of relics from the N
A dog-themed relics exhibition opened at the National Museum of China in Beijing, on Jan 30, 2017. More than 100 precious relics and artifacts including traditional painting, paper-cuts, jade sculptures and Lunar New Year's paintings have been chosen for
Fresco from ancient tombs in Shanxi province. A total of 89 frescos from ancient tombs, divided into 12 groups, are being displayed at an exhibition unveiled at the Shanghai Museum on Wednesday.The frescos are from Shanxi Museum's collections, covering pi
An aerial view of the ancient tombs in Zhong county, Southwest China's Chongqing. Twenty-seven ancient tombs have been unearthed in Zhong county, Southwest China's Chongqing, during a three-month excavation covering an area of 1,600 square meters.These si
This photo shows the archaeological excavation site in the Anning river valley area of Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture in Southwest China's Sichuan province on Oct 11, 2017. Large scale ruins of semi-subterranean dwellings have been discovered in the A
A blue and red porcelain jar is on display at the Nanjing Museum, Sept 28. An exhibition,China and the World: Seacraft and Porcelain Exhibition along the Maritime Silk Road, opened at the Nanjing Museum on Sept 28.Featuring the shipwrecks and porcelains f
An exhibition of Thangkaartis heldat the Cultural Palace of Nationalities inBeijingfrom Sept 2 to 6, 2017. The exhibit showcases more than 120 Thangka art works created by 100 masters from Tibet autonomous region, Qinghai, Sichuan and Gansu provinces.Than
An ancient brick tomb painted with colored murals from Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) was discovered in Shanxi when a villager was renovating his old residence in Yuanjiazhuang village, Jifeng town, Jishan county, Shanxi province.2017-08-31 13:48:04 （来自
HeartSutra, by Xu Ruifeng. For nearly 1,000 years, mountainous Dehua county in Fujian province has been producing ivory-white porcelain.When pieces were exported in large quantities to Europe via the Maritime Silk Road between the 17th and 18th centuries,
Three vehicles have been earthed from the Zheng State No 3 pit in Xinzheng city, Central China's Henan province, after five months' excavation. One of the vehicles included a large carriage for ancient high officials or nobles.
A photo of calligraphy downloaded from the Taipei Palace Museum's official website Taipei's Palace Museum has put more than 70,000 pictures online, which people can download for free. All the pictures are available on the "Open Data" section of
The National Museum of China in Beijing was the world's most-visited museum in 2016, says an annual report on global attractions.
The excavation of an ancient tomb is currently underway at a construction site in the Chuaigutuan village of Yangyuan county, North China's Hebei province on June 11.
More than 20 human settlement sites from the pre-Qin period were discovered scattered along the Anning river valley plain for nearly 100 kilometers in Southwest China's Sichuan province, according an archaeological achievements briefing in Xichang on Dec
