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Two imperial bronze sculptures that were looted from Beijing's Yuanmingyuan Garden were handed over to the National Museum of China during a donation ceremony held on Friday.
Cambodia's Apsara Authority and China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation signed a MoU for conservation and sustainable development in Angkor World Heritage Site and Siem Reap region.
Situated on the Gulf of Botnia, southwest Finland, Old Rauma is the largest unified historical wooden town in the Nordic countries with an area of 28 hectares and 600 buildings.
As an old Tibetan saying goes, wine is to the Tibetans what willow leaves to goats. Therefore, the love for wine cradles a shared hobby of all walks of life in Tibet, collecting wine vessels.
The remains of Hatra, an ancient city 110 kilometers southwest of Mosul, Iraq, was inscribed onto the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985.
The Bayon Temple is part of the Angkor World Heritage site as listed by UNESCO in 1992. The temple has 49 "face towers" all with smiling faces, which represent the Khmer people.
The UNESCO's World Heritage Committee inscribed China's cultural landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces onto the prestigious World Heritage List.
Two pieces of looted Chinese cultural relics, bronze sculptures of a rabbit head and a rat head, are expected to return to China this week.
Fifty-one year old Yang Yongliang is an inheritor of the Jiaya Tibetan carpet, a state-level intangible cultural heritage, in Jiaya village, Huangzhong county, Northwest China's Qinghai province.
China's official archives relating to Tibet in the Yuan Dynasty and documents showing the ancient financial and messaging service operated between overseas Chinese and relatives back home have won a major UNESCO recognition.
Artists perform during the closing ceremony of the 4th International Festival of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province.
China's Honghe Hani Rice Terraces is now a World Heritage site, with its induction into World Heritage List on June 22.
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