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Archaeological museum marks anniversary with exhibition, seminar

By Wang Ru | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-09-19 12:09
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People visit the new themed exhibition,  Million Years of Human History, at the Chinese Archaeological Museum in Beijing on Saturday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

The Chinese Archaeological Museum celebrated its first anniversary of opening to the public with a series of activities in Beijing on Saturday.

According to statistics from the museum, during the past year, it has devoted itself to popularizing archaeological progress in China by organizing more than 30 lectures to the public and over 3,200 professionals explaining its artifacts during exhibitions. Moreover, it has received more than 400,000 visits.

A new themed exhibition, Million Years of Human History, kicked off on the same day at the museum, showcasing relics of Nihewan sites group in Yangyuan county, Hebei province, and Xuetangliangzi Site in Shiyan, Hubei province, as two keys to understand the earliest periods of humans' cultural and historical development.

Nihewan sites group has yielded discoveries of more than 300 sites dating back about 1.76 million years to 10,000 years in North China. Three complete human skull fossils have been unearthed from Xuetangliangzi Site from about 1 million years ago, which prove a million years of human history in China.

A seminar on archaeology and tracing the origins of the Chinese civilization was also held, bringing together scholars to share the latest progress in the field.

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