1+ hour, 40+ min ago   (206+ words) The head of the famous seal rock along the coast of Badouzi (八斗子) in Keelung has broken off, likely due to recent typhoons and large waves, becoming the second natural landmark in the area to sustain major damage. The rock,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (350+ words) The Taiwan Forestry Research Institute said it is promoting full utilization of Taiwan’s incense cedar to develop a high-value circular economy for forest resources. Incense cedar is an endemic species of Taiwan and is one of Taiwan’s five major coniferous…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (476+ words) Volunteers armed with chisels, brushes and protective goggles chip away at rock encasing the bones of a massive amphibian in a glass-walled laboratory on the ground floor of Warsaw’s Copernicus Science Centre. On the other side of the wall, visitors…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (366+ words) A Japanese group yesterday began excavating near Pingtung County’s decommissioned Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant in search of the remains of Japanese soldiers who died during World War II. The excavation, outside the plant’s water discharge outlet, is being led by…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (270+ words) The National Palace Museum in Taipei is to display a famous painting of Yuan Taizu (Genghis Khan), the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire, for the first time in 13 years in a new exhibition that opens on Friday....

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (559+ words) The Tainan City Government yesterday declared three inscriptions in local temples to be cultural heritage artifacts, saying that the objects are unique or primary sources valuable to historical research. An expert evaluation panel has confirmed the historical value of a…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (159+ words) Visitors to the Acropolis can now see the Parthenon’s western side looking whole for the first time in about 220 years. Officially unveiled on Thursday, restorers have slotted two new marble blocks into long-empty gaps high on the temple’s western end…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (505+ words) Archeologists yesterday revealed that they have discovered a structure near the prehistoric stone circle of Stonehenge in southern England that might have served as a “prototype” for the 5,000-year-old Neolithic monument. The structure would have consisted of two wooden poles…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (772+ words) The battered wooden trunk had been in the family for a century — shifted from attic to barn to garage as it was handed down through the generations. No one knew a cinematic treasure was inside. That was until retired high…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (781+ words) Apr. 13 to Apr. 19 From 17th-century royalty and Presbyterian missionaries to White Terror victims, cultural figures and industrialists, Nanshan Public Cemetery (南山公墓) sprawls across 95 hectares, guarding four centuries of Taiwan’s history. Current estimates show more than 60,000 graves, the earliest dating to…...