The tiny islet of Dascalio, next to Keros. Keros is a small uninhabited island close to Naxos, in Greece’s Cyclades island archipelago. Photo by Greece-Is websiteThe Greek Ministry of Culture issued a statement on Holy Thursday announcing the recent concl
The Crescent Moon Lake appears like a mirage in Dunhuang's Singing Sand Dunes.The Silk Road city of Dunhuang is an oasis shaped by the sands of time that has survived and thrived in the desert for millennia. The ancient refuge in one of the planet's tough
A new study found evidence that climate change likely drove the Harappans to resettle far away from the floodplains of the Indus.
Archaeological excavation has, historically, operated in a very hierarchical structure, according to archaeologist. The history of the enterprise is deeply entangled with Western colonial and imperial pursuits, she says. Excavations have been, and often s
Diaoyucheng was located in the Diaoyu Mountain of East Peninsula in Hechuan District, Chongqing. From August, 2017 to April, 2018, Institute of Chongqing Municipal Cultural Heritage Research Institute conducted fourth initiative archaeological excavation.
Research destroys theory that Chinese armourers used applications not discovered in the West until millennia later. Andrew Masterson reports.Chinese craftspeople did not – that’s did not – invent a sophisticated and highly effective anti-rust treatment mo
In Aristophanes’ comedyTheFrogs, a nosy slave listens to his master’s conversations and spreads them around town, resulting in his master’s horrible misfortunes.The Aristophanes character, however, was not put there just for laughs. Gossip was a real tool
Qingbai ceramics from the Field Museum's Java Sea Shipwreck collection.Credit: Copyright The Field Museum. Photo by Kate GolembiewskiScientists just blasted pottery from an ancient shipwreck with a "ray gun." Besides being totally sci-fi, the X-
Roman historians accused Nero of deliberately setting the Great Fire of Rome so that he could rebuild the city in a more pleasing style.Credit: Photographer Helmut Wimmer/Copyright Interspot Film GmbHWas the infamously cruelNeroreally as terrible an emper
Climate change trashed the Byzantine Empire, ancient garbage mounds revealed.Credit: ShutterstockAbout a century before the fall of the Byzantine Empire — the eastern portion of the vast Roman Empire — signs of its impending doom were written in garbage.A
Roman relief of a chariot race and spectators, from the Vatican Museum's collection.Credit: CM Dixon/Print Collector/GettyDuring the first century, people across Rome were obsessed with chariot races, which frequently produced horrific crashes.However, on
适当的怀疑并不是对一段非同寻常的艺术史的反驳，而是每一道艺术主菜中必不可少的配菜。当某件事好得都令人难以置信的时候，比如最近一件声称是达芬奇“唯一幸存”的雕塑作品的重新揭幕，我们就有必要仔细看看这方面的专家是如何得出如此非凡的结论的。意大利佛罗伦萨的斯特罗齐宫博物馆3月9日起公开举办一场展览，其中包括据称是达·芬奇年轻时（19岁或20岁）创作的一件雕像。这座雕塑之前一直被收藏在英国的维多利亚及阿尔伯特博 ...
Archaeologists exploring the site of a naval battle fought 2,200 years ago between Rome and Carthage have uncovered clues to how the battle may have unfolded — as well as several mysteries.
Researchers have succeeded in pinpointing the exact origins of 700-year-old Chinese pottery items recovered from a shipwreck.
©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
Ancient Knossos. Source: WikipediaThe Greek government has decided to remove more than 2,000ancient sites, monuments and museums from a state assets fund after archaeologists protested, fearing the country’s heritage might be sold off.Among the sites incl
Burial circle A, tomb IV from the top of the Lions Gate. In the background is the city of Argos. Photo by Robert McCabeThe Archaeological Society of Greece is celebrating 180 years of glorious history with a once-in-a-lifetime-exhibit of black and white p
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
An intentionally damaged limestone carving found within a 3,500-year-old shrine at Tell Edfu, in southern Egypt, shows what appears to be an ancient couple who someone tried to vanquish in the afterlife.The carving depicts a man and woman standing beside
Archeologists recently discovered two ancient tombs in Egypt.Credit: Egyptian Ministry of AntiquitiesArcheologists recently found two ancient tombs in Egypt that date back to Roman times, Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities announced yesterday (Jan. 15).One o
A schoolchild's homework in Greek was written on a wax tablet nearly 2,000 years ago.Credit: Copyright British Library BoardHomework written by a school kid in ancient Egypt has been preserved since the second century A.D. And the words on the slab may so
基本信息： 编著：Gabriela Krist,张良仁 出版社：BÖHLAU VERLAG WIEN KÖLN WEIMAR（维也纳博劳出版社） 出版时间：2018 ISBN: 9783205200444 内容简介： 从2014年开始，在欧亚-太平洋地区大学联盟（Eurasia-PacificUninet, 简称EPU）支持下，由南京大学和维也纳应用艺术大学（University
Defense wallCredit: S.E. SidebothamA 2,300-year-old fortress, and associated structures, which protected an ancient port called Berenike, have been discovered in Egypt by the Red Sea. This photo shows a fragment of the northern defense wall of Berenike un
By mapping historical spy-satellite images to recent aerial photos, researchers can find historical sites that vanished decades ago.Credit: Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, University of ArkansasWhen the United States launched its first secret &q
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
Languages of Ancient Southern Mongolia and North China: A Historical-Comparative Study of the Serbior Xianbei Branch of the Serbi-Mongolic Language (English and Chinese Edition) Bilingual Edition
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 ...
(© Trustees of the British Museum)Inscribed coneOn May 2, 2003, shortlyafter the invasion of Iraq, London’s Metropolitan Police raided an antiquities dealer and seized eight artifacts they believed had been obtained through illicit channels. It’s typ
Military officer’s stable preserved under ash from eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Greek and Roman writers record the use of a substance called miltos as a decoration, a medicine – and a handy way to repair a boat. Now scientists have worked out why. Andrew Masterson reports.
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
Credit: Raffaella Bianucci, University of TurinHistoric finds in 2018Many fascinating archaeological discoveries were made in 2018. From the world'soldest cheeseto the world'soldest breweryto a massive black granite sarcophagus that ignited a mediafrenzys
Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality will feature life-sized warrior figures and two Imperial Army horses
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
A clay tablet inscribed with thirteen verses of Homer’s “Odyssey” found at Ancient Olympia, and the wreck of a 2,400-year-oldGreek merchant ship found on the seabed of the Black Seamade the list of the “Top 10 Discoveries of 2018” in the current issue ofA
This 4,400-year-old tomb at Saqqara was constructed for a "divine inspector" named "Wahtye."Credit: Photo courtesy Egyptian Ministry of AntiquitiesA 4,400-year-old tomb constructed for a "divine inspector" named "Wahtye&
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
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 ...
Samuel Gao2018-10-13 07:29来源：澎湃新闻字号“雀踏花枝出素纨，曾闻人说刻丝难。要知应是宣和物，莫作寻常黹绣看。” 宋徽宗为缂丝名家朱克柔的作品所做的诗，道出了缂丝在千百年来为何如此深受上层人物喜爱。缂丝“通经断纬”，工艺繁复，图样又极为优美。宋代官署文思院下设专门生产缂丝的“克丝作”，使缂丝行成了纯粹供欣赏的艺术门类——缂丝画。清代则制作了大量供皇室穿着的缂丝服饰及供皇家供奉的缂丝唐卡，这些均是缂 ...
Melissa 综合整理2018-11-03 09:31来源：澎湃新闻字号“我们准备明早8点出发，以便赶上一个晴天。最早下午8点的时候，你们会看到我翻过最后的岩石，登上与天最接近的地点。”1924年，乔治·马洛里第三次也是最后一次向心中的女神珠穆朗玛峰发起挑战，遇难的前一天，他派出一名夏尔巴向导给5 号营地的同伴送去一封简短的便笺，留下了这些一如往常般满怀信心的文字。乔治·马洛里与妻子鲁丝·特纳，摄于1914年。本文图片均为 资料图 ...
Sophie Ibbotson，Max Lovell-Hoare；编译/Loene2018-12-07 18:45来源：澎湃新闻字号2000年吉尔吉斯斯坦爆发革命时，在我居住的英国，没几个人能在地图上指出这个国家的位置。看电视新闻的人结结巴巴地读出它的名字，甚至有人会问：“这地方真的存在吗？”它不但真实存在，还拥有世界上最美丽、最不寻常的自然风景。或许这正是吉尔吉斯人把祖国藏起来、不让外人知道的原因吧。吉尔吉斯斯坦共和国位于中亚东部、哈萨克草原南方，紧 ...
Zhangzhuang Ancient Cemetery was located in Haizhou District, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province. Mar., 2018, Lianyungang City Museum conducted salvage excavation, and 36 tombs was excavated, among which 6 belong to Western Han Dynasty, 11 belonged to Eas
Parts of the replicas rely on ‘respectable guesstimate’ of what the original looked like
Jewellery and grooming items found during summer excavation in Lincolnshire
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 remains of residential buildings found at Tenea date between roughly 300 B.C. and A.D. 400.Credit: Photo courtesy Greek Ministry of CultureArchaeologists have uncovered portions of the ancient Greek city of Tenea, whose residents claimed they were pri
A 2,100-year-old pit containing a mini "Terracotta Army" has been discovered in China.Credit: Photo courtesy Chinese Cultural RelicsInside a 2,100-year-old pit in China, archaeologists have discovered a miniature army of sorts: carefully arrange
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
Residents of Yangchun tell Dutch court of importance of Buddha statue which contains mummified remains
