One of the 56 returned Chinese cultural relics. /CMG
One of the 56 returned Chinese cultural relics. /CMG
1. China's National Cultural Heritage Administration announced the return of 56 lost Chinese cultural relics from Italy. Amid China's intensified efforts to recover cultural relics lost overseas, 2,113 pieces (sets) of artifacts have been successfully brought back in 48 batches to date.
2. Archeologists confirmed that Wuwangdun Tomb in east China's Anhui Province is the largest and highest-level tomb of the ancient Chu state dating back over 2,200 years.
3. The Mengxihe Site in Lezhi County of Ziyang City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, has restored a rare three-dimensional Paleolithic society scene with a number of organic matter remains, including animal fossils, ebony and plant seeds.
4. The discovery of Zhang Zhao's family tomb in Nanjing City, east China's Jiangsu Province, provides valuable insights into ancient tombs in Nanjing, once the capital of six dynasties. Zhang was a prominent politician of the Eastern Wu State during the Three Kingdoms period (220-280).
5. The largest and most prestigious tomb in the Dulan tomb complex in northwest China's Qinghai Province was unearthed, possibly belonging to a figure surpassing the previously discovered royal tomb of the Tuyuhun king.
6. Large-scale building foundations, dated to approximately 2,500 years ago, have been discovered in Shaoxing City, east China's Zhejiang Province. These are the first confirmed structures from the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) within the city, providing crucial clues in the search for the ancient Yue State's capital.
7. An international research team led by Chinese scientists found evidence that East Asian hominins had possessed advanced stone tool technology as early as 1.1 million years ago. The research team believes that the hominins at the Cenjiawan site had cognitive level and technical abilities comparable to Acheulean hominins.
8. Dozens of human fossils, dating back 300,000 years, were unearthed at the Hualongdong site in Dongzhi County, east China's Anhui Province. These fossils are among the earliest in East Asia in terms of the evolutionary transition to Homo sapiens.
9. Dating back 3,700 years, the Baliqiao archaeological site in Nanyang City's Fangcheng County, southwest of central China's Henan Province, shows significant similarities to the Erlitou ruins, a ground-breaking site identified as one of the capitals of the Xia Dynasty (2070-1600 BC).
10. Two prominent Tang-dynasty (618-907) family tombs were found in Jiali Village, Xi'an City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, with one family related to the Tang emperor Xuanzong's concubine.