US Edition2,300-year-old Chinese silk books return to Beijing after decades in US museum
- Two volumes of 2,300-year-old silk books returned to Beijing from the United States after 79 years abroad.
- The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts are the earliest known classics in China, dating back to around 300 BC during the Warring States Period.
- The manuscripts were illegally excavated in 1942 from a tomb in Zidanku, Changsha, China.
- The repatriation allows for their protection and study in the soil from which they came.
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Global Times: China's earliest known silk texts return from US, signifying valuable example for recovering artifacts displaced through unethical means
BEIJING, May 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- China's earliest known silk texts, the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts volumes II and III, have returned to China as a flight touched down at Beijing Capital International Airport at 3:55 am on Sunday, ending their…
Ancient silk texts return to China after 79 years in the U.S.
The Zidanku Silk Manuscript volumes II and III, the earliest silk texts discovered in China, arrived in Beijing from the U.S. on Sunday morning. The silk manuscripts are the only ones unearthed so far from China's Warring States Period (475-221
Fragments of a silk manuscript of about 2,300 years old returned this Sunday to China from the United States after staying nearly eight decades outside the Asian country, reported the National Cultural Heritage Administration of China. The pieces were returned by the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of Asian Art, at a handover ceremony held last Friday at the Chinese embassy in Washington, prior to its transfer to Beijing, collected the l…
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