We found the face of Emperor Xiaowen." In the past, it could take cultural heritage workers years to relocate a single Buddha ...

Visitors touring the Longmen Grottoes in central China's Henan Province often discover more than stone carvings, murals and statues, encountering instead a timeless story of creativity, faith, ...

Members of the conservation, research and monitoring team under Longmen Grottoes Academy pose for a group photo after work at ...

A two-day symposium focuses on the protection and preservation of the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang city, Henan province.

Longmen Grottoes were started around the year 493 when Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534) moved the capital to Luoyang and they were continuously built for 400 years until the ...

After dynasties of carving and centuries of worship and protection, the Longmen Grottoes in central China's Henan Province has gained its unique reputation as a Buddhist site of the only empress in ...

The world-famous Longmen Grottoes are located 12km south of Luoyang. Here two mountains, namely, East Hill (Mt. Xiangshan) and West Hill (Mt. Longmen), confront each other with the Yi River traversing ...

Luoyang municipal government and Xinhua News Agency jointly organized a fact-finding press trip to the ancient Silk Road linking China with Central Asia and Europe, to answer the country's ...

A tourist takes photos at the Longmen Grottoes scenic area during a night tour in Luoyang, central China's Henan Province, April 28, 2020. The Longmen Grottoes scenic area has introduced night tour ...