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On a summer's day in 1990, Chen Baoya and five friends embarked on a three-month hiking trip with horses, dogs and tents in which they would explore ancient roads between Yunnan province and the Tibet autonomous region.

HONG KONG, May 22 (Xinhua) -- The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) on Monday announced it will showcase 120 precious cultural relics from the world-renowned Sanxi

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The restoration of a precious copy of the Yongle Dadian ("Yongle encyclopedia") is being celebrated through a special exhibition at the National Library of China in Beijing.

Researchers in Italy have used cosmic ray scanning technology to detect an ancient Greek tomb underneath the city of Naples.

As the sun sets over the dusty village roads of Oman, a palpable sense of anticipation fills the air. Villagers gather, immersed in animated...

Two ancient Egyptian sarcophagi were believed to contain human remains. One of them was thought to be a mummified child as it has the appearance of a “small human”.

Two ancient shipwrecks, probably dating back to the middle of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), have been found at a depth of 1,500 meters in the South China Sea, the National Cultural Heritage Administration announced on Sunday in the coastal city of Sanya, Hainan province.

Tel Aviv, May 21: In a meticulously planned operation that took five months to organize, a pair of 2,000-year-old coffin lids from ancient Egypt were transferred from the Israel Museum in Tel Aviv to undergo a CT scan.

Assam Governor Gulab Chand Kataria on Sunday released a book titled Partitioned Freedom written by Ram Madhav at an event in Guwahati and said that India has