1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (678+ words) Researchers studying fallen Huashan rock art fragments found a lime-and-blood binder around red pigment. The possible link to childbirth remains an interpretation, not chemical proof. How did the Huashan rock art survive for roughly 2,000 years on limestone cliffs exposed to…...

5+ day, 25+ min ago   (85+ words) news.cgtn.com Porcelain legacy: Jingdezhen's bridge to the world Jingdezhen's time‑honored porcelain intangible heritage tells the multi‑faceted story of porcelain. It brings to life age‑old craft skills kept alive by cultural inheritors, alongside cutting‑edge scientific…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (123+ words) A field catalogue cover for Han dynasty pictorial stones: a semi-transparent stone-relief rubbing with archival notes. Changes the stone tones from pale vermilion to pale ochre, keeping the rest. Changes the archive number from YSWK-026 to YSWK-032, keeping the rest....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (81+ words) news.cgtn.com Cultural and creative products inspired by Sanxingdui artifacts bring the museum's iconic bronze figures and masks into everyday life. /CGTN What happens when ancient artifacts meet modern creativity? Sanxingdui's iconic bronze masks and towering figures have stepped…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (110+ words) View Shanxi’s ancient landmarks, digitally reborn through AI China Daily View Shanxi’s ancient landmarks, digitally reborn through AI Step into Shanxi, where millennia of history meet the future. AI has brought ancient temples, pagodas, and mountain passes into the digital…...

3+ week, 10+ hour ago   (774+ words) Pieces of 1,700-year-old Chinese armor have emerged from the ground with something archaeologists would hardly expect from ancient iron: traces of a bright, silvery-white metallic shine. The discovery provides the earliest known evidence in China for tin-coated iron and, according…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (43+ words) news.cgtn.com Expressway takes detour to protect ancient temple in Shanxi A highway under construction in north China's Shanxi Province is taking an unusual detour – to protect the historic landscape surrounding a thousand-year-old Buddhist temple....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (515+ words) Researchers have long struggled to explain why the red paintings on the Huashan cliffs in southern China remain visible. In a place marked by heat, humidity, and heavy seasonal rain, artwork that is about 2,000 years old would ordinarily be expected…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (226+ words) China Daily Global Edition New fund backs Qing royal archives A special fund was launched in the National Library of China Foundation on Tuesday to support the preservation and study of the Yangshi Lei architectural archive, created by a family…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (678+ words) More than 3,000 years ago, an ancient society buried thousands of strange artifacts—then vanished. The bronze standing figure unearthed from the sacrificial pit at the Sanxingdui site in Guanghan, Sichuan Province. “These bronze masks and heads are so different from…...