Hera (left) shakes hands with Athena. Acropolis Museum, AthensOut of all the gestures of greeting used today around the globe, the handshake is the most widely used. The first nearly-universal way of greeting someone, which was first portrayed in the arts
The sacred plaza, seen here, was at the heart of Girsu. A cultic area that had over 300 broken ceremonial objects was recently uncovered near its entrance.(Image: © S. Rey/Tello/Girsu Project)Archaeologists recently unearthed a 5,000-year-old cul
Tight wrapping in childhood produced deliberately deformed skulls.
Replica swords tested combat skills and revealed battle damage
Reference article: Facts about Armageddon, the ancient city otherwise known as Megiddo.
Peter Kupfer of Mainz University published a history of the Chinese wine culture / 9,000-year-old discoveries from central China are the world’s earliest traces of winemaking.The oldest archaeological evidence of the use of wild grapes to make a fermented
Photo: AMNAA proto-Byzantine-era skull which was discovered by anthropologists in the Paliokastro area onThasosisland shows signs of complicated surgery, according to a new Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) report.The skull, which dates from the earlyB
Archaeologists digitally reconstructed the leopard image from fragments of a sarcophagus cover.(Image: © University of Milan)Excavation of an ancient city of the dead in Aswan, Egypt, recently uncovered pieces of a sarcophagus lid that had been d
(Museum of London)Havering Hoard, East London, EnglandAn extraordinary collectionof bronze tools and weapons was recovered at a construction site near the Thames in East London. Dubbed the Havering Hoard, the assemblage comprises 453 artifacts dated to be
Researchers examined stable isotopes from bone collagen and dental enamel to reconstruct the diets of ancient Mongolians. Findings challenge the popular notion of a completely nomadic prehistoric population, linking grain cultivation with the success of t
Scientists have debated for years over why Bronze Age wall paintings at the ancient settlement of Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini depict monkeys who originated from thousands of miles away in Asia.Some say that the artworks suggest that ancient
2019 was another year of major archaeological discoveries, not only inGreecebut across the Mediterranean basin, where the different phases of Greek antiquity left their indelible mark.Archaeologists from a number of countries from around the globe found g
Etruscan painting of dancers and musicians, in the Tomb of the Leopards, Tarquinia, Italy. Photo credit: WikipediaThe Latin alphabet is undoubtedly the world’s most recognizable form of written language, whose history goes back in time to the eras of anci
Ancient Greeks had a great love and respect for their dogs, cherishing them as companions, protectors, and hunters, as evidenced by several dog tombstones discovered over the centuries.The most well-known story about the relationship between ancient Greek
The orchestra of the ancient theater in Thouria. Photo credit: Greek Culture MinistryThe ancient Greek city of Thouria, located in the southernPeloponnese,is among the cities which managed to thrive and become important centers all by themselves in the wi
“契丹”之名，始见于《魏书》。自公元前4世纪中叶，自号“契丹”见于诸史以来，他们世代游牧于潢水及土河流域（今内蒙古西拉木伦河及老哈河流域）一带。这一地区出土的辽代文化遗存，充分体现了浓郁的游牧、狩猎气息。史料记载，契丹人“行营到处即为家，一桌穹庐数乘车。千里山川无土著，四时畋猎是生涯”。据契丹肇兴之地考古出土的辽墓壁画资料观察， ...
This photo contest is an annual visual studies and educa -tional initiative designed to promote the common heritageof the Silk Roads. It of ficially launches on 19 September2019 and is open to participants aged 14-25 living in ortravelling along the Silk
The groundbreaking ceremony of the construction projectof Gansu Jiandu documentation museum was held in Lanzhouon 31st July. The museum, which includes one floorunderground and four-story main building above ground,is scheduled to be completed and open to
On 17th July , the Shaanxi Museum of Historyand the The State H istorical a nd CulturalReserve-Museum "Issyk" of History and Cultureof Kaz akhstan held a meeti ng in Xi' an andsigned a memorandum of cooperation withKazakhstan. Qiang Yue, secreta
From 10 to 12 September, a four-country archaeological investigation onFergana Valley was held in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, initiated by NorthwesternUniversity(China) and co-hosted by Institute of History, Archaeology andEthnology of Kyrgyzs Academy of Sciences.15
On August 8-10, 2019, the International Institute for Central AsianStudies(IICAS) in cooperation with the University College Londo norganized in Istanbul, Turkey, an interstate meeting of the official representativesof the member-states of the Silk Roads
The specialists of IICAS implemented a detailed photogrammetry of aseries of the sites (complex of Kasym Shaikh, mausoleum of Mir SaidBakhrom, mausoleum of Deggaron and oasis wall of Bukhara) in th eframework of the project for the nomination of the histo
Hundreds who died weren't instantly vaporized.
Restorers discovered numerous objects concealed under the synagogue floor.
Archaeologists uncovered a 3000-year-old megalithic temple in Peru.(Image: © Museo Tumbas Reales de Sipán)Archaeologists have discovered a 3000-year-old megalithic temple in Peru that an ancient "water cult" used for fertility rituals.The t
The ancient Roman worshippers were likely in altered states of consciousness.
The bodies of ancient princes and princesses may have rested in two ancient tombs lined with gold that were recently found at the site of Pylos in Greece, archaeologists announced Dec. 17.Inside the 3,500-year-old tombs, the archaeologists found intricate
作者: Jo Marchant一本从太空回看过去的新书让本文作者既惊喜又遗憾。相关图书《空间考古学：未来如何重塑历史》（ Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past）作者： Sarah Parcak出版社：Henry Holt（2019）在权力中心转移之前，塔尼斯（Tanis）作为古埃及都城走过了350多
任何一种艺术体都有其特定的表现手法。音乐是时间的艺术，它利用声音的节奏、大小组成优美的旋律；绘画是平面的艺术，它利用抽象的线条、颜色塑造具体的形象；建筑是空间的艺术，它利用架空的基础、墙体构建多维的立体；影视是综合性的艺术，它糅合声色光电的特点，创造全新的艺术体现。而博物馆则是另一种综合性艺术，它的表现手法更是以音乐、绘画、建筑、影视、文物装备等为辅助，突出文物藏品为主体的艺术，通过专业的展陈表达
The eating habits of the ancient Greeksare fascinating for so many reasons. They had an impressively varied diet by any measure, but it naturally contrasted in many ways to ours — with the most characteristic difference being that they ate much less than
The Eleftherna region in the prefecture of Rethymno, Crete aims to become the most important tourist destination on the island by capitalizing on the wealth of archaeological treasures discovered in the area, as well as its gleaming new museum.Also called
The straits between Greece’s south Pelion Peninsula and the island of Skiathos in the Northern Sporades conceal many secrets in their treacherous waters — including one little-known fact known mostly to historians and a handful of locals.Few people are aw
Excavations at the ancient city of Tenea in the Peloponnese, which was built by Trojan prisoners of war, have unearthed significant new finds,the Greek Culture Ministry announced on Tuesday. The discoveriesinclude enormous baths dating from Roman times.Th
Reference Article: Facts about Mesopotamia.
1922年，英国探险家霍华德·卡特和金融家卡那封勋爵发现了图坦卡蒙的陵墓，图坦卡蒙的传说激发了全世界的想象力。图坦卡蒙，大约出生于公元前1341年，是古埃及新王国时期第十八王朝的第十二位法老，9岁登基，19岁暴亡，毕生都受祭司和权臣摆布。图坦卡蒙广为现代人熟知并非因功绩卓著，而是由于他的坟墓在三千年的时间内从未被盗，直到1922年被发现，挖掘出大量珍宝，震惊了世界。▲ 发现图坦卡蒙的陵墓图坦卡蒙墓
历史城镇类文化遗产的可持续发展“历史城镇和城镇中心”是世界文化遗产中一个极具特殊性的类别，其中“尚有人居住的历史城镇”这一占据绝大多数的子类别更是尤其特殊。由于这些城镇时至今日仍在经历着社会、经济和文化等诸多方面的不断演进和改变，因此除了保护之外，历史城镇类遗产在管理、利用等方面同样需要具备更高的水平，才能进入一种良性的、自给自足的发展循环之中——这也就是如今我们经常提及的可持续发展。2008年以
The restoration of the relics has been a priority for specialists with Dunhuang Academy over the past few decades.Dunhuang Academy director looks to iconic Mogao Caves art in renewed global role for Chinese culture, Alexis Hooi and Wang Linyan report.They
Q&A with Agnete Lassen, associate curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection.
Carved references to an aurora predate known records by nearly a century.
10月24日，由中国古迹遗址保护协会与云南省文化和旅游厅、普洱市人民政府共同主办的“茶文化景观保护研究和可持续发展国际研讨会”在普洱市澜沧拉祜族自治县举行。国家文物局党组书记、局长刘玉珠，中共云南省委常委、宣传部部长赵金出席会议并致辞。刘玉珠指出，中国茶文化源远流长，中国西南地区是全球主要的茶树起源中心之一。中国拥有类型丰富的茶文化景观，多年来，国家文物局始终致力于不断推进包括茶文化景观在内的各类
The altar reveals new details about a rebellion against the Kingdom of Israel.
Pompeii was buried in ash in A.D. 79 in the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius.(Image: © Eric VANDEVILLE/Getty Images)In the decades before the city ofPompeiiwas buried in ash by the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, everyday lif
Archeologists also uncovered millions of pottery fragments, flint tools and basalt stone vessels.
Gladiators may have frequented the ancient tavern where the fresco was found.
It is still controversy in the academic world, whether the humanbeings on earth come from Africa, or each continent has theirorigins. However, one thing is certain: before the emergence ofthe national system, humans did not need passports, visas, andh a d
InternationalConferenceonthe“ITTechnologiesfortheCulturalHeritageManagement”(IT-CHM’2019)tookplaceonMay22,2019ontheterritoryofthemosqueofUlugbek,complexofRegistan,cityofSamarkand. Thisconferencewasjointlyorganizedby: –InstituteofComputerScience,LublinUniv
ThemeetingwiththedelegationoftheSilkRoadInternationalProjectwasheld. The43rdsessionoftheUNESCOWorldHeritageCommitteeisrunningoninBaku. Withintheframeworkofthesessiontherewillbearrangedbusinessappointmentsofdelegationsfromdifferentcountriesandorganization
6thInternationalConference“SyriacChristianityinChinaandCentralAsia”organizedbySalzburgUniversityandtheInstituteofArcheologynamedafterA.Kh.MargulanwiththesupportoftheInternationalInstituteforCentralAsianStudieswasheldJune21-27,2019inAlmaty(RepublicofKazakh
FormorethantenyearstheinternationalcommunityisimplementingundertheauspicesofUNESCOahugeworkforthenominationofthehistoricalandculturalsitesoftheGreatSilkRoadsfortheUNESCOWorldHeritageList.In2014,astheresultofthiswork,33sitesfromChina,KazakhstanandKyrgyzsta
Forum“HumanitarianSecurityintheModernWorld:ChallengesandPracticesfortheConservationofHistoricalandCulturalHeritageofCentralAsianandRussia”organizedincooperationwithIICAStookplaceinKazan(Tatarstan,RussianFederation)on,26-28July2019.Themainorganizedofthefor
