A well-preserved tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty has been confirmed as being that of a "diplomatic representative" of the Queen of Zhou, according to Xinhua.
A set of special stamps themed with Chinese traditional solar terms were issued for the first time on Feb 4 – the Start of Spring, based on the lunar calendar.
As part of a series of events to help ring in the upcoming Chinese New Year, the annual temple fair at the Temple of Earth in Beijing will be taken abroad for the first. The inaugural event will be held in Bangkok, capital of Thailand on Feb 10, 2015.
Folk artist Dai Wanzhi shows his 21-meter-long painting which keeps a record of Shehuo performance in Daijia village of Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province in the 1950s.
China has applied for World Heritage status for the ancient rock carvings of the Huashan Mountain in Guangxi Province in 2016.
A massive collection of porcelain is seen in the wrecked ship Nanhai One at a museum in Hailing, South China's Guangdong province, Jan 29, 2015. The 30-meter-long merchant vessel, built during the Song Dynasty (960-1279), sank off the coast of Guangdong province about 800 years ago.
The Palace Museum is to open five new tourist spots this year to mark its 90th birthday，raising the public area to 65%.
The 85 items of important scientific and technological inventions of ancient China were recently announced by the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Science.
Beijing opera actress Sun Ping performs an excerpt from "The Drunken Beauty", during a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration in Los Angeles.
The first of two life-sized Chinese terracotta warriors which will be displayed at the "Treasures of Ancient China" exhibition is unpacked at the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest.
Actors perform during the premiere of Love·Chekhov, a drama to commemorate the 155th anniversary of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's birthday.
Actor Zhang Yicheng (L) and actress Liu Shuang perform in the drama "Amber", directed by Chinese director Meng Jinghui, at Thalia Theater, in Hamburg, Germany, on Jan. 29, 2015.
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