A visitor takes in impressive exhibits at the Silk Road-themed cultural relic exhibition at the Liaoning Provincial Museum in Shenyang, Liaoning’s provincial capital, on June 21. The exhibition opened on the day and displayed a total of 192 exhibits, including cultural relics collected by Hirayama Ikou, a Japanese artist and painter, and paintings themed around the Silk Road created by him. Some of the exhibits can be dated back to 2,000 BC. [Photo by Yu Haiyang/Chinanews.com]

Two visitors take a close-up look at an exhibit during the cultural relic exhibition at Liaoning Provincial Museum in Shenyang, on June 21. [Photo by Yu Haiyang/Chinanews.com]

A visitor takes picture of a mysterious exhibit at the cultural relic exhibition in Shenyang, on June 21. [Photo by Yu Haiyang/Chinanews.com]