Greece has invested approximately 600,000 euros (766,674 U.S. dollars) in the past four years for excavation works at the ancient city of Amphipolis in northern Greece where a spectacular Alexander the Great era tomb has been discovered this summer, the Culture Ministry said.

 

Greek and foreign experts agree that the recent findings in the b......

    昨天，房山周口店遗址启动了2012年度第1地点保护性清理发掘工作，市民可近距离同考古学家交流，零距离参观发掘剖面，同北京猿人“对话”。
    据了解，此次清理发掘工作是2009年抢救性清理发掘工作的延续。2009年启动的清理发掘工作是周口店遗址自1937年大规模系统发掘停止后72年内首次进行的、以遗址保护为主旨的抢救性清理发掘，这为落实周口店遗址的保护规划，奠定了科......

 
French researchers have unearthed the oldest natural pearl ever found at a Neolithic site in Arabia, suggesting that pearl oyster fishing first occurred in this region of the world.
Discovered in the Emirate of Umm al Quwain, United Arab Emirates (UAE), the pearl was believed to have originated between 5547 and 5235 BC.

"Gemmologists and jewelle......

    偏堡子遗址位于辽宁省新民市张屯乡偏堡子村,西北距新民市区约25公里,西距辽河约10公里,南临蒲河。1956年,考古工作者在偏堡子村调查时,发现了重要的新石器时代遗存,即目前学术界公认的“偏堡子文化”。虽然偏堡子文化的命名地是在偏堡子村，但是其代表性遗存均是在偏堡子遗址以外的地点发掘所得。在第三次全国文物普查中,新民市文物管理所在偏堡子村采集到了属于偏堡子文化、......

 
Chinese archaeologists have unearthed an unidentified cluster of 102 tombs, 40 percent of which were made for infants, on the Pamirs Plateau in the westernmost part of the country.
The tombs, found in Kezilesu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, contain wooden caskets with desiccated corpses, as well as stoneware, po......

 




 
 
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    一、招生名额 
　　经国家教育部批准，我系2013年全日制硕士研究生招生人数4人。
    二、复试原则 
　  1、初试分数不低于教育部《2013年全国硕士研究生统一入学考试考生进入复试的初试成绩基本要求》中所划定的分数线。全国联考成绩总分不低于295分，各单科分数达到国家A线。
    2、达到国家分数线的考生，以初试总成绩排名从高到底为序进入复试，复试名额原则上为招生计......

 
The Mayan apocalypse may have been a bust, but a century-old understanding of the calendar that spawned the doomsday rumors appears to be right on.
In a new study, scientists used modern methods to double-check the match between the Mayan Long Count calendar and the modern European calendar. Understanding how the two coincide is important, becaus......

 　　3月31日，陕西省安康市城区的一处工地在基建施工时挖出一座古墓，经安康市汉滨区文物管理所的抢救性清理，20余件东汉时期的珍贵器物重见天日，其中一把长1米、宽5厘米的铁剑和一个青铜铰斗尤为引人注目。 
　　“我当时正开着挖掘机回填土方，突然发现挖掘机下面有个黑魆魆的大窟窿，随即报警。”发现古墓的工人丁义成说，“当晚包括我在内的3名工人整晚轮流看护墓地，直到......

 
Working near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, archaeologists have unearthed the earliest alphabetical written text ever uncovered in the city.
Dr. Eilat Mazar of the Hebrew University's Institute of Archeology, who led the team, told Xinhua on Wednesday that the inscription dated to the 10th century BC, and predates by 250 years the earliest known ......