The location of the "Shule city" site dated to Han dynasty is controversy in the academic circle. On Aug. 27th, experts engaged in the study of archaeology and history of Qin and Han dynasties, and culture of Xinjiang Province from the Peking Un
The cave consists of several connected spaces and the textiles were discovered in only one of these, assumed to be a storage area.
搜索复制This July, an archaeological report titled The Excavation Report of the Phùng Nguyên Cultural Site at Yili, Vietnam was published. It summarizes the archaeological work over the last ten years. This excavation at Vietnam was initiated in 2006 by the S
Recently, 140 cultural relics were discovered by archaeologists from the Northwestern Uuniversity during their investigation and excavation of the site of the Subashi Temple at present Kuqa county, Aksu Region, Xinjiang Province. This discovery supports t
In December 2011, due to the implementation of the Project for the S106 Provincial Road’s Route Changing and the Comprehensive Development of the Northeast District, Fuping County, the People’s Government of Fuping County, Shaanxi Province applied to the
An ancient tablet recently unearthed in Tuscany has revealed its first secret: the engraved name of a goddess linked to fertility.
On 25th August, sites excavation of Xinzheng Gates in Kaifeng City of Henan Province.(by Li Bo)The archaeological excavation work for revealing "City on City" ruins on Xinzheng Gate sites of the capital in Northern Song Dynasty has achieved a pr
On July.27th,Curator Forum of Sino-Japan Museum Exchanges and Cooperation organized by the SPBCH and the Shaanxi History Museum was held in Xi'an.
As the important cradle of Chinese nationality and civilizations,Shaanxi enjoys abundant and unique cultural resources and rich cultural residues. As the starting point of the ancient Silk Road,Shaanxi is an important window to showcase splendid Chinese t
Ancient items of jewellery found by archeologists on Taymyr peninsula are stone labrets which were inserted into the face below the bottom lip.
On 22nd 2016, the Art Institute of Maijishan Grottoes organised the Tourist Carrying Capacity Symposium. Scholars from Peking University, Fudan University, China University of Geoscience, and other institutes were invited for the discussion of issues incl
The find of the fragment of the medieval bronze cup - from modern-day Iran - was made by scientists on an expedition to monitor permafrost on the Gydan Peninsula for the first time in a quarter of a century.
From August to November, 2015, Institute of Archaeology and Culture Relics of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and other institutions conducted an exploration and excavation to the tomb groups in Naobaowan. The tomb groups were located at the northeast ma
Today, progress from ongoing partnership and hard work can be celebrated.
In order to well preserve and research on cultural heritages of grottoes along the Silk Road, Gansu officials broke the original management system and transferred the management of the north grotto and two world heritage sites: Maijishan grottoes and Bing
Recently ,in the southern suburbs of Xi’an,our archaeologists excavated a tomb of the Northern dynasties, where Tuyuhun Princess and her husband are buried. This important archaeological discovery provide a valuable material for the national history rease
The Silk Road and Russian Ethnic Cultural Heritage is jointly launched by the Russian Museum of Ethnography and the National Museum of China. The 594 exhibits provided by the Russian Museum of Ethnography epitomize the unique culture of peoples in souther
Around 1,500 years ago, at a time when China was divided, a woman named Farong was laid to rest wearing fantastic jewelry, which included a necklace of 5,000 beads and "exquisite" earrings, archaeologists report.
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).
Bulgarian archaeologists say they have found the world's oldest gold artifact — a tiny bead which they believe is 6,500 years old.The bead was unearthed in the remains of a small house at a prehistoric settlement known as Tell Yunatsite, just outside the
搜索复制According to the arrangement of the National Heritage Board, Gansu Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau issued "the Special Inspection Scheme of the Enforcement of the Great Wall in the Whole Province" on July 27th , which demanded 11 cities an
来源：中国文物报 作者：陈伟 徐亦鹏 孙振强 中国大运河，就像祖国东部大地上一条耀眼的项链，串起了一座座古老的城市。苏州作为中国大运河经济带上重要的文化古城，是运河沿线唯一以古城概念申遗的城市。2014 年6月，作为中国大运河的重要一段，大运河苏州段正式列入世界文化遗产名录。大运河这条世界上最长且最古老的人工水道，历经了两千多年的不断发展、演变与疏浚，至今仍保持着历史赋予的功能，依然发挥着重要的交通运 ...
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
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.
一侧眼窝骨骼内发现一只稀有白玉环。 图片拍摄者：考古学家德米特里·克赤金考古专家推测，这是一位老年男性和他的妻子或者小妾的遗骸。他们永久地葬在一起展现夫妻情。从这对夫妇的一些特殊之处可以推测出他们的墓属于青铜时代格拉兹科夫文化。男性遗骸的一侧眼窝骨骼内有一只稀有白玉环，胸部有另外三只白玉环。考古学家德米特里·克赤金博士指出：“ 这有可能与他们关于来世的理念有关。”这对夫妇的骨骼样本已经送往加拿大做放 ...
In the fourteenth year of the Tang Zhenguan period (640 A.D.), Emperor Tai Zong of the Tang Dynasty instituted the “Tingzhou Prefecture” in the North Slope of the East Tianshan Mountains where the Site of Beiting City used to locate.
International Academic Symposium on Sanxingdui Relics and World’s Ancient Civilizations and Commemoration of 30th Anniversary of the Discovery of Sanxingdui Sacrifice Pits Held
The Kizil Caves sits on the cliffs on the northern bank of the Muzat River, 7 kilometers southeast of Kizil town in Baicheng County, Xinjiang, China. Kizil in the Uygur language means red.
Yesterday, the "Luoyang Evening News" reporter witnessed the changes of the ancient city site in Luoyang after implementation of protection and remediation projects. The landscape lake has been filled with clean water and the whole site look
In mid-July, organized by the Xinjiang Team of the Institute of Archaeology of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, archaeological work in the year of 2016 on Beshbalik City Ruins is officially started.
On July 25, according to wall construction, unearthed cultural relics, laminated cultural layers and the contained relics fragments of Beshbalik City Ruins, the Xinjiang archaeological team of the Institute of Archeology of Chinese Academy of Social Scien
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
基督教，唐代称景教，实际上是对叙利亚人聂斯托里（Nestorius，386－451）为首的基督教聂斯托里派（Nestorian Christianity）的称谓。这个教派反对玛利亚是神的母亲，反对圣像崇拜、炼狱说等传统基督教教义。公元431年，在小亚以弗所宗教会议（Ecumenical Council of Ephesus)上，聂斯托里派被罗马基督教法庭判定为异端。聂斯托里本人及其追随者被驱逐出境。不过，他们很快在萨珊波斯王国找到避难所，498年成立自主教会，总部起初 ...
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
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
丹丹乌里克故城遗址 : 位于策勒县城以北大约90公里的塔克拉玛干大沙漠中。占地面积大约三四平方公里,是一座规模宏大的汉唐时代的佛教城遗址。在玉龙喀什河和克里雅河的尾闾之间,该故城的建筑物隐现在沙堆之中,一处处断垣残壁仍能显示出它当年的气势和格局。遍地有被打碎的或大致完好的佛像,在一些基本成形的墙壁上,画着精美的壁画。 这里出土了大量珍贵的 ...
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
On July,18th, Shaanxi-Bokhara archaeological meeting was held in Bokhara, Uzbekitan. Ms. Wang Lixia, vice-governor of Shaanxi Province participated and addressed in the meeting. Mr.Zhao Rong, director of the SPBCH, and Ms. Wang Bin,director of the Museum
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.
International Conference on Buddhist Archaeology in China and South Asia
In 2015, the subsurface drainage system was firstly discovered in the capital city Lin’an of the Southern Song Dynasty. Along with the discovery of the drainage system, east walls of the Lin’an city was also recovered, which renders rich information about
Bronze Age burial near Lake Baikal intrigues archeologists who have not yet revealed contents of leather pouch between man's kneecaps.
顾村言对话中国美术学院副院长、克孜尔石窟壁画国际学术研讨会总策展人王赞 龟兹石窟壁画国际学术研讨会不久前在中国美术学院举行。研讨会总策展人、中国美术学院副院长王赞在接受《东方早报·艺术评论》专访时表示：“我们研究‘画家画’的一个重要途径是从中国传统壁画开始，只有厘清和区分了岩彩和水墨材料对画家画与文人画的作用问题，才能从历史、文化、技艺、方式等方面寻找到今日绘画语言发展的突破口。” 中国美术学 ...
文图/冯玉雷 2014年7月25日，玉帛之路文化考察团经过广河县，太仓促，未能安排踏勘大夏古城，易华兄很失落。8月19~20日，他到兰州参加由上海市社会科学联合会与甘肃丝绸之路与华夏文明传承发展协同创新中心联合主办的“历史与展望：中西交通与华夏文明国际学术研讨会暨丝绸之路经济带高层论坛”，会后即与临夏州志办主任马志勇、广河县文广局局长唐士乾等赴广河、积石山考察。接着，在叶舒宪、易华等学者帮助下，广河县积极筹备 ...
经典舞剧《大梦敦煌》在第六届敦煌行旅游节开幕式上激情上演中德知名旅行商代表围绕深化两地旅游合作展开热烈讨论
On 22nd June, Beiting Study and Research Institute was established in Jmusar, where the site of Bashbaliq City locates, on the second anniversary of the inscription of the World Cultural Heritage “the Silk Roads: Routes network of Chang’an-Tianshan Corr
The UNWTO Silk Road Programme is a collaborative initiative designed to enhance sustainable tourism development along the historic Silk Road route. It aims to maximize the benefits of tourism development for local Silk Road communities, while stimulatin
The Mogao Grottoes, a collection of more than 500 ancient Buddhist temples carved into the cliffs near Dunhuang in north-western China, were a key stop for the intrepid travellers who exchanged goods and information on the Silk Road—the ancient equivalent
File image from the Provincial People's Government of Gansu96 Cultural Heritages and Sites wereinscribedon the Protection list on Provincial-Levelof Gansu, China. The 8thbatchconsists of 6 catagories, which are Sites, Tombs, Architectures, Grottoes/Stone
脚手架已经搭到了塔身4层，千年大雁塔开始塔檐养护。 西部网讯 6月13日，西安大雁塔，脚手架已经搭到了塔身4层，大雁塔塔檐养护按计划进行着。大雁塔北侧塔基下，几名工人正在往上吊运一桶桶排盐灰浆 ...
