The earliest multiplication formulas on record have been discovered on bamboo slips from the Warring States period (475BC-221BC) at a tomb site in Central China s Hubei Province, pushing the history of these formulas back by nearly a century, China s National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) announced on Thursday at a press conference.
On Monday, as a shipwreck was slowly pulled out of the water from the bottom of a riverbed where it had been laying for more than a century and a half, Chinese archaeology witnessed a new breakthrough in the field of underwater archaeology. The salvage operation took nearly three hours to remove the shipwreck along with a large caisson, a watertight chamber that had been built specially for the wreck s removal.
The main event of 2022 s International Museum Day in China is scheduled to kick off at the Hubei Museum in Central China s Hubei Province on Wednesday, China s National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) announced on Friday.
China s National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) on Thursday revealed the country s top 10 archaeological discoveries of 2021, a year that marked the centennial of the birth of modern Chinese archaeology. The 10 outstanding discoveries are the highlights of 32 archaeological projects covering the origin of early human beings, the development of prehistoric culture as well as the historical processes that unified China into a multi-ethnic civilization.