A robot specially designed for underground exploration is opening up a lost world of historic treasures for Chinese archaeologists. 
    Scientists are planning its second excursion next week when it will go into an ancient tomb in Xi'an, China's ancient capital in the northwestern Shaanxi Province. 
    The robot completed a successful trial......

 






China is setting up a cultural diversity reserve in its northwestern-most Xinjiang, the only place where experts say the world's four important ancient civilizations of China, India, Greece and Islam, met and melt.

The reserve, the first of its kind in China, is located in Turpan of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, an intersection of ......

 
A Canadian erhu player is collecting ancient Chinese farm labor songs, tian shange, which he compares to worlds-apart rap. Hear them at the Zhujiajiao World Music Festival starting tomorrow.
Jeremy Moyer used to live in the center of Shanghai, but just moved with his Chinese wife to Zhujiajiao, the "Venice of Shanghai," an ancient water town......

 

     An International Seminar titled “the Origin of Rice and Rice Farming” was held in Wannian county，Jiangxi province during October 27 and October 30,2008. The seminar was coorganized by the 
government of Wannian county, Jiangxi province and the Research Center for Scientific Archaeology  
of IA CASS, and hosted by professor Zhao Zhijun w......

     
    Beijing wakes up at four every morning, so do the antique markets in the city. 
    The book market at Baoguo Temple, one of the oldest of its kind, is still very famous.
    The temple was first built in the Liao Dynasty, and destroyed in the Ming Dynasty. The book market started in 1466 when the reconstruction of the temple had been com......

After its debut in Hong Kong early September last year, the exhibition entitled "East meets West-cultural relics from the Pearl River Delta region" returned to Guangzhou on January 18. 
Through some 200 cultural relics from 20 museums in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, the exhibition attempts to unfold the commercial and cultural contact be......

 
Those involved in the ancient form of soccer known as Cuju launched a bid for the game to be recognized as part of the world's intangible heritage on Tuesday in Linzi District, east China's Shandong Province, where the game was first played. 
Officials from Linzi government gave copies of the balls used in Cuju and books on the ancient gam......

    From Nov 22 to Nov 24th, held in Changshu Xiangsu province, the conference “looking back 30 years – Archaeological work and Artifact preservation researchsince the reform & open policy of 1979 ,” was hosted by the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(IA CASS). More than ten experts and scholars from the IA CASS, Beiji......

    
    The CASS Institute of Archaeology held an academic seminar entitled 'Chinese Archaeology in the 30 Years After the Reforms and Open-Door Policy' at the Institute's seminar hall on January 15th 2009. Six experts and scholars from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology, Jilin University'......

 
Although Tianjin prides itself on its modernity, the city also has a 600-year history and many stories to tell. 
    On the first floor of the Tianjin History Museum, visitors are greeted by an enormous reclining Buddha excavated from the Mogao Grotto, measuring 7.2 m tall, 18.1 m long and 6.8 m wide. The lower level also showcases the 2008 Olymp......