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The Longmen Grottoes and the largest collection of ancient art in China
... Province, are one of the three most famous grottoes in China, the other two being the Yungang Caves near Datong in ... protected and conserved since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Furthermore, in 2000, the Longmen ...
dhwty - 25/05/2014 - 22:27
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10 Tourist Spots That Ancient People Visited
... the time of the Egyptians. Throughout history, ancient people used to travel not only for political and religious ... Giza’s many sacred temples and structures. Hangzhou, China Though a bit further from Europe than the other cities ... would yearn for a front-row seat at the Colosseum. The Republic of Venice, The Greatest Jewel of the Mediterranean? ...
Lex Leigh - 10/09/2022 - 18:52
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Cave With 25,000 Years of Human History Now Delivers Headless Squatting Woman
In China, archaeologists have made an extraordinary discovery ... skeleton is the oldest ever found in this part of the People’s Republic of China. The remarkable find was made in 2018, but ...
Ed Whelan - 02/05/2019 - 13:57
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Niumatou Site: An Archaeological Preservation of Taiwan’s Lost Aborigines
... began, almost completely absorbing the original Taiwan people. The Dutch East India Company traded with the Chinese ... the area became an army camp after World War Two when the Republic of China took control at the end of the war. An estimated ...
Michelle Freson - 21/08/2018 - 18:45
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The Female Siberian Ice Maiden Whose Legend Lives On
... 5th century AD, a 35-year-old woman was discovered in the Republic of Altai, Russia. Finding the woman helped archaeologists develop deeper understanding of the people that lived in this remote region. Buried in ... region is surrounded by mountains and modern-day Russia, China, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. The Ukok Plateau is part of ...
Sarah Piraino - 17/04/2021 - 02:01
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Tighten Your Belt: 2,200 year-old Xiongnu Jewelry Made of Coal, Jade and Coral
... on the banks of the Yenesei River in the modern-day Tuva Republic. Another buckle found was encrusted with carnelian, ... She said: 'Evidently, their owners were very rich people who came from Trans-Baikal region or Mongolia. They ... - and they came northwards from the borders of modern-day China.’ Bronze Buckles Were Popular Too Bronze buckles with ...
ancient-origins - 11/10/2017 - 23:04
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9 Ancient Leaders Who Changed the Course of History
... to come. 2.Julius Caesar and the Demise of the Roman Republic Born in 100 BC, Julius Caesar is one of the most ... Roman Empire. 4.Qin Shi Huang- The First Man to Unite China Born in 259 BC, Qin Shi Huang ’s first taste of power ... and technology across Asia and Europe. Unfortunately, many people today only remember his brutality. 8.Hatshepsut- The ...
Robbie Mitchell - 06/03/2023 - 17:53
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Experts restore 1,400-year-old shoes from a Chinese tomb
... sewed together using animal sinew,” says an article in China.org.cn . “Xu said technicians would use special ... Desert. The tombs were a burial place for royalty and people of lower social status too. A painting of a dancer ... dyed fibers have been found in a prehistoric cave in the Republic of Georgia and date back to 36,000 BC. The first ...
Mark Miller - 17/03/2015 - 21:05
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Ancient Chinese Burial Customs Exposed at Cliff of Tombs
In China, archaeologists have found thousands of burials on a ... of Sichuan, Chengdu , which is in the south-west of the People’s Republic. The discoveries were made inside the Chuanxin ...
Ed Whelan - 15/05/2020 - 23:00
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Where Did the Ancient Measure of Quarantine Start?
... spread of a deadly coronavirus originating in Wuhan, China, has led world leaders to invoke an ancient tradition ... to China, a modern instance of the old impulse to restrict people’s movements in order to stop disease transmission. ... Croatia, Ragusa (modern day Dubrovnik) was in the Venetian Republic when it invented the 40-day quarantine to try to ...
ancient-origins - 05/02/2020 - 22:59
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Siberian elders vote to rebury 2,500-year-old mummy with angry spirit to prevent more disasters
... in 1993 in a kurgan (mound) of the Pazyryk culture in the Republic of Altai, Russia. It was considered to be among the ... findings of the late 20th century. The indigenous people of Altai believe the Ice Maiden was a priestess who ... burial chamber on the Ukok Plateau near the border of China, in what is now the Autonomous Republic of Altai. The ...
aprilholloway - 20/08/2014 - 03:11
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North Korean Regime Reveals Discovery of Ancient Royal Tomb in Rare International Announcement
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea claims that they have found an ancient ... in the 5 th century AD, its territory included northeast China and the northern half of the Korean peninsula. The ...
Theodoros Karasavvas - 21/08/2017 - 01:55
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Seven Haunted Monuments and Their Violent Past
... has been attacked twenty three times, which means lots of people have died there. Unsurprisingly, all this bloodshed ... around 125 miles (200 kilometers) from Prague, Czech Republic, was built in 1352. Over the centuries, ... of spring, trying to climb out. 6. The Forbidden City: China’s Most Haunted Monument The Forbidden City in ...
Robbie Mitchell - 04/02/2023 - 14:00
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Elaborate Jade ‘Cong’ and ‘Bi’ as Grave Goods of the Liangzhu Culture
... lived along the lower reaches of Yangtze River Delta of China, in the area that is today Zhejiang Province. One ... National Commission of the People's Republic of China for UNESCO , 2013. Liangzhu Archaeological ...
dhwty - 27/02/2016 - 03:52
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10 of the Weirdest Things Consumed as Aphrodisiacs
... about our ancestors? Well, across cultures and centuries, people have sought some pretty unconventional means to ignite ... particularly in the high-end cuisine of imperial China. See, when it comes to Bird Nest Soup , not just any ... in ancient contraception. (Lip Kee from Singapore, Republic of Singapore/ CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Consuming crocodile ...
Robbie Mitchell - 16/09/2023 - 18:59
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Rare Coin Celebrating Caesar’s Assassination Might Fetch £5 Million
... Caesarea A Staggering 5.6 Tons of Coins Are Unearthed in China and Archaeologists Struggle to Fathom Who Hid Them 23 Punctures Deflated the Roman Republic The Roman Republic was founded in 480 BC and ... of Julius Caesar. ( Public Domain ) As soon as the people of Rome got wind of Caesar’s death, riots broke out, ...
ashley cowie - 10/10/2020 - 17:45
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2,500-year-old Siberian Ice Maiden will finally be laid to rest in her homeland
... in 1993 in a kurgan (mound) of the Pazyryk culture in the Republic of Altai, Russia. It was considered to be among the ... in Russia of the late 20th century. The indigenous people of Altai have been campaigning for years to rebury her ... burial chamber on the Ukok Plateau near the border of China, in what is now the Autonomous Republic of Altai. The ...
aprilholloway - 19/12/2014 - 22:11
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What Was an Ancient Chinese Palace Doing in the Enemy Territory of Siberia?
... remains of a Chinese palace typical of the Han Dynasty in China. What was so unusual about this discovery was the fact ... in Khakassia The Xiongnu were a nomadic pastoral people who formed a great tribal league that came to dominate ... from Abakan , the capital city of Russia’s Khakassia Republic , to the village of Askyz, and found the buried ...
aprilholloway - 22/10/2023 - 22:52
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This Musical Instrument Still Works 1,700 Years After a Hun Nomad Crafted it!
... found the musical instruments at two sites of the Altai Republic region of south-central Russia. The most exciting ... spread across modern-day Mongolia, Kazakhstan, northeast China, and southern Russia, as well as into Europe – where ... biased accounts of what the Huns did, suggesting these people were “evil half-animals whose sole purpose seemed to ...
Alicia McDermott - 12/01/2018 - 22:56
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Catastrophic Collapse: When Historic Good Governments Turned Bad
... as “ones that provided goods and services for their people and did not starkly concentrate wealth and power” ... governments of four ancient societies: the Roman Empire, China's Ming Dynasty , India's Mughal Empire , and the Venetian Republic . These four societies were deemed to have “good ...
Alicia McDermott - 17/10/2020 - 17:29