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Guanfu Museum in Hot Water After Online Claims Link Statue to Unsolved Theft

While museum founder Ma Weidu says the statue was legally acquired and thoroughly vetted before purchase, the controversy has ignited criticism over China's stolen cultural relics...

Chinese archaeologist who discovered 5,000-year-old city pleads guilty to corruption

Liu Bin, a Chinese archaeologist credited with discovering a vast 5,000-year-old prehistoric city that rewrote the history of Chinese civilisation, has pleaded guilty to taking bri...

Skagerrak Shipwreck Reveals Pristine 18th-Century Chinese Porcelain Cargo

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists have identified this as the best-preserved shipwreck cargo of its kind in northern Europe, marking a significant discove...

How stolen Cambodian artifacts ended up in American museums

Looters stole thousands of priceless artifacts from religious sites across Cambodia. An American lawyer is working with the country to bring them home

Cambodia tracking down thousands of priceless looted antiquities | 60 Minutes

Looters stole thousands of priceless artifacts from religious sites across Cambodia. An American lawyer is working with the country to bring them home.

CHINA-INNER MONGOLIA-HOHHOT-CULTURAL RELICS CONSERVATION (CN)

(260519) -- HOHHOT, May 19, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Xu Zheng (R) and her colleague clean and consolidate a model in Hohhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on April 1, 202...

Dahecun National Archaeological Site Park and Dehecun Site Museum / CADG

1. Project Overview - The Dahecun Site, which has lain dormant in the hinterland of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River for over 6,800 years, holds outstanding signifi...

AFGHANISTAN-KABUL-NATIONAL MUSEUM

(260517) -- KABUL, May 17, 2026 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on May 16, 2026 shows historical artifacts at the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. TO G...

Can China team’s Greek dig unveil an untold truth in ancient world history?

Chinese archaeologists have started work on a joint excavation project at a site in Greece that may help answer some increasingly popular questions in China about the roots of anci...

Ученые России и Китая выпустили каталог археологического наследия Алтая

В Алтайском государственном университете состоялась презентация первого российско-китайского каталога Музея археологии и

Shipwreck ‘Almost Beyond Belief’ Stunned Archaeologists with its Cargo of Intact Porcelain

A private citizen in Norway with a passion for underwater exploration has turned up an astonishing find in the nation’s waters: a shipwreck with a cargo of intact Chinese porcelain...

Korea designates 15th-century ceramic flask, 4 rare Buddhist artworks as nat'l treasures

A rare 15th-century ceramic flask that was smuggled out of Korea during the 1910-45 Japanese colonial occupation has been officially designated a national treasure, underscoring a...

Inscriptions named heritage artifacts

The Changsha Jiandu Museum launches its Digital Exhibition Hall, Allowing Visitors from All Over the World to Adopt Digi...

CHANGSHA, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 13 July 2026 – The digital revolution is reshaping the way people experience museums and cultural heritage. Exploring cultural treasures...

Egypt recovers 4 ancient artifacts from US

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday that Egypt has retrieved four ancient artifacts from the United States, reported Xinhua. The Consulate General of Egyp...

Pottery Discovered in the Philippines Marks Trade With Chinese Merchants

TACLOBAN CITY, PHILIPPINES—The Philippine News Agency reports that a fragment of Chinese ceramic dated to […] The post Pottery Discovered in the Philippines Marks Trade With Chines...

Italy unveils newly acquired Etruscan treasure in Rome

Italy's €15 million acquisition of fourth-century BC painted monument from Vulci is unveiled at Villa Giulia. Italy has unveiled the François Tomb, one of the supreme surviving ex...

Searching for Cambodia's stolen crown jewels

Crowns and precious jewels believed to have been worn by ancient Khmer royalty were tracked down to an unlikely place: a pub parking lot outside London.

Australia Repatriates Smuggled Pottery to Italy

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA—ANSA reports that a bell-shaped, two-handled vessel dated to between 340 and 325 b.c. […] The post Australia Repatriates Smuggled Pottery to Italy appeared firs...

Jewellery worth €4.5m stolen from France's Lalique Museum

Twenty-seven pieces of jewellery worth more than 4.5 million euros (about 5.1 million U.S. dollars) were stolen from the Lalique Museum in northeastern France early Sunday, French...

Stitching time back together, a conservator's dialogue with the past

HOHHOT, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Dressed in a white lab coat and a face mask, hunched over a workstation under the bright light of a surgical-style lamp, Xu Zheng looks exactly like a su...

Norway salvages 18th-century shipwreck, recovers porcelain and chandelier

Archaeologists recovered Chinese porcelain and European goods from an 18th-century shipwreck found in southern Norway.

China may have accessed Mythos

According to a new report from Semafor, the White House's decision to impose export restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos was driven in part by fears that it had been accessed by a gr...

Turkish police seize more than 10,000 artifacts in Istanbul raid

Turkish police said Thursday they seized more than 10,000 historically significant artifacts from a home in Istanbul and arrested two suspects during an anti-smuggling operation ta...