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18/09/2026 17:07

Uncle Ho’s visits to the Vietnam Revolution Museum

On the afternoon of January 5, 1959, one day before its official inauguration, Uncle Ho visited the Vietnam Revolution Museum. He was accompanied by Mr. Le Liem, Deputy Minister of Culture. Comrade Dang Xuan Thieu, Director of the Museum, and Comrade Dao Duy Ky, the author of the exhibition outline, guided him through the exibition. Comrade Comrade Vampilop, a Soviet Museum expert was also in attendance.

13/07/2026 10:53

National Treasure: The Statue of the Goddess Durga

Among the artifacts recognized as National Treasures in 2025, the Vietnam National Museum of History (VNMH) nominated two outstanding objects. One of them is the Statue of the goddess Durga, an exceptional bronze sculpture repatriated to Vietnam under the provisions of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property.

17/10/2023 11:01

AI reads text from ancient Herculaneum scroll for the first time

Machine-learning technique reveals Greek words in CT scans of rolled-up papyrus.

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17/07/2023 09:08

Oldest genetic data from a human relative found in 2-million-year-old teeth

Ancient protein sequences identify the sex of Paranthropus robustus fossils and hint at evolutionary relationships.

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31/03/2023 10:20

Scientists gain insights into Old Master artists’ use of egg in oil paintings

Researchers believe egg was used by likes of Botticelli and Da Vinci for fine-tuning of oil paint properties

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13/02/2023 15:57

Ancient stone tools suggest early humans dined on hippo

Fossils and artefacts unearthed in Kenya suggest our ancestors used stone stools to feed on large animals in the distant past.

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15/06/2022 10:03

Previously unknown crocodile species lived in Asia 39 million years ago

Researchers from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen have identified fossils of a previously unknown crocodile species in Vietnam. The nearly four-meter-long, almost completely preserved skeleton from the Na Duong site is part of the group of long-snouted crocodiles from the gharial family. The fossil, which is between 35 and 39 million years old, provides new information about the spread of these crocodiles from their origins in North Africa and Western Europe to Southeast Asia. The study has been published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.

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29/11/2021 21:28

Muonic X-ray emission spectroscopy study of Roman coins reveals thriving empires

A study of gold coins from different moments of the Roman Empire has revealed the thriving economy at the time of minting.

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07/10/2021 11:46

Ink analysis reveals Marie Antoinette’s letters’ hidden words and who censored them

The analysis reveals whether the doomed French queen spilled state secrets or bon mots

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04/10/2021 12:47

'Connection with the past': AI to find and preserve Europe's historical smells

There's no sense quite like smell to trigger an emotional response. One whiff of a damp basement, a dusty blanket, a ripe strawberry, or a steaming bowl of pasta can instantly evoke feelings and memories that have their roots in the distant past. Yet when it comes to learning about bygone times, we barely give a thought to the vapors that once prevailed—galleries and museums are the domain of artworks that appeal to our sense of sight, rarely reminding us of how things smelled—fragrant or foul—when our forebears walked the earth.

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Bảo tàng lịch sử Quốc gia

Vietnam National Museum of History

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