A 3,600-year-old bone skate has been discovered at the site of the defunct Goaotai settlement in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China. These are the first bone skates ever found in China, and they are similar in design and style to similar skates of the same age in Europe. They may thus refer to the close connection between the two worlds in the Bronze Age.
Last week, archaeologists discovered twenty-one pit tombs with luxurious furnishings and at least two hundred artifacts from the early n. Together with a rare "pair tomb," they harken back to an ancient Han Dynasty royal burial site...
A huge hoard of 1.5-ton bronze coins from the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties was discovered in the eastern Chinese village of Shuangdun in Jiangsu province. The coins were connected by straw strings and arranged in neat rows.
The more than 3,000-year-old gold mask was discovered in a rich nobleman's tomb during an archaeological excavation in Zhengzhou Shang City in central China's Henan Province. It is the first Shang Dynasty gold mask ever discovered and the only full-face mask of its kind.
At the 7 km2 archaeological site in Sanxingdui, the excavation of sacrificial pits is underway, in which a joint team of archaeologists from the Institute for theSichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Beijing and Sichuan Universities have uncovered nearly 13,000 amazing objects made of bronze, gold, jade and ivory. Many of the artefacts have no analogue in archaeology and are quite unique.
In the 1930s, a Nazi expedition discovered a statue carved from a very valuable meteorite. It's believed to be about a thousand years old and has a swastika on its belly. The statue weighs ten kilograms and stands 24 centimetres tall.
Nine years ago, scientists from Zlín sewed the new shoes of the Tomas Bata University in Zlín. They have completed a long-term research on the terracotta army. They created a replica of the shoes of Chinese warriors and found interesting things.
In May this year, a 180-million-year-old giant Lufengosaurus skeleton was discovered in Lu-Feng, southwest China. Apart from its impressive size, what makes it special is its preservation - it is 70 percent intact. According to experts, a living specimen could be up to eight metres long and weigh up to two tonnes...
More than 80 bronze mirrors were found in 400 warring tombs (between 475 - 221 BC) and the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - 9) at a more than 2,000-year-old burial ground in Shenxi Province in northwest China. nl). Although a large part of the tombs was looted, archaeologists obtained more than 2,000 artifacts, including artfully crafted pottery and bronze objects ...
A beautiful golden mask was discovered by archaeologists at the famous Chinese site of Sanxingdui. According to experts, it is about three thousand years old. It was located in a sacrificial pit, which was used during rituals.