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More than a year after a devastating fire ravaged the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, its forecourt has reopened after it was cleared of dangerous lead pollution.
A livestreaming week will be held from May 30 to June 5 in Shanghai.
Calligraphy pieces and poems reveal the personality and vision of Zhao Puchu as a patriot, a social activist and a scholar, Zhang Kun reports in Shanghai.
Unlike his retired friends, who can spend all day playing mahjong, Peng Yimin prefers spending his time re-creating buildings－in miniature form.
A 2,000-year-old bronze pot freshly unearthed in Central China's Henan province contained more than 3,000 milliliters of an unknown liquid.
More efforts should be made to enable traditional Chinese medicine to play a bigger role in the prevention and control of infectious diseases, top legislators and political advisers have suggested.
The British author JK Rowling has delighted fans by unveiling a new book, her first children's story to stand apart from the fictional world of the wizard Harry Potter.
A 2,000-year-old bronze pot freshly unearthed in central China's Henan Province has contained more than 3,000 ml of unknown liquid.
China's first national park in Northwest China's Sanjiangyuan area, covering a total area of 123,100 square kilometers, will be officially established in 2020 on schedule, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday.
A special COVID-19 charity fashion show featuring models wearing artistic face masks raised the curtain in Shanghai on Wednesday.
The 93rd Academy Awards, or the Oscars, may be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, local media reported on Tuesday.
A team of "doctors" works backstage to keep these precious historical relics from more than 2,000 years ago in such good condition.
China marked the 44th International Museum Day on Monday with offline and online activities, including the donation of items at the Nanjing Museum related to the COVID-19 outbreak by medical workers from Jiangsu province.
The number of visitors to Chinese museums across China increased by over 100 million visitors year on year to reach 1.23 billion in 2019, said Liu Yuzhu, head of the National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA), at the opening ceremony of the International Museum Day celebrations in China on Monday.
Museums in many Chinese cities are holding a variety of events to promote culture and get closer to the public, echoing the theme of the 2020 International Museum Day, which is "Museums for Equality: Diversity and Inclusion".
Following popular Western film and television works such as Harry Potter and Star Wars, the Monkey King from the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West has become the first Chinese hero to get his own Lego model.
More than 6,000 ancient tombs dating back between the Warring States Period (475 B.C.-221 B.C.) and the Ming Dynasty (1368―1644）have been discovered in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra announced on Thursday that the New York Philharmonic will participate online in its summer music festival "Music in the Summer Air" (MISA), which will be held in mid or late July.
"Once Upon a Bite 2," a sequel to the popular 2018 food documentary "Once Upon a Bite," continued to top the weekly Chinese-language TV series popularity ranking on review platform Douban on Thursday.
Two giant pandas, Da Mao and Er Shun from China, will bid farewell to Canadians three years ahead of schedule due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, the Calgary Zoo announced on Tuesday.
An ancient tomb believed to date back to the Liao and Jin dynasties (907-1234) has been discovered in the city of Qinhuangdao, north China's Hebei Province, local authorities said Tuesday.
Activities and events to be held in China for the upcoming International Museum Day have been released on Monday as the coronavirus epidemic wanes.
China's National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) continued to delight audiences through online concerts, with its second online concert series this year, "Sound of Summer Blooms," having racked up tens of millions of views.
The National Art Museum of China will reopen from Wednesday with a daily cap of 500 visitors, as the country is opening up its public venues in an orderly manner after the coronavirus epidemic eases.
A unique burial style has recently been discovered in an archaeological excavation site in central China's Hunan Province.
Chinese archaeologists have unearthed a tomb dating back to the Song Dynasty (960-1279) in the city of Dazhou, southwest China's Sichuan Province, local authorities said Sunday.
An ancient stone tablet with inscriptions was discovered Wednesday in north China's Hebei Province, according to local authorities.
The COVID-19 pandemic may have halted many projects, but it failed to stop the joint efforts between British and Chinese horticultural experts for the construction of a Chinese garden in Greater Manchester.
Chinese ceramics have been unearthed near a harbor in the Middle East by a team of archaeologists from the University of Durham in the United Kingdom.
Chinese archaeologists announced Thursday significant achievements at the Shuanghuaishu site in central China's Henan Province, providing key proof of the origin of the over 5,000-year-long Chinese civilization.
