Found in the west part of the outer coffin of Liu He’s tomb, the ninth emperor in the Han dynasty, the armor in the form of 6 ...
Researchers from the Jiangxi Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute in China have recovered the ...
Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 composite armour scales unearthed from the tomb of Liu He – the deposed ninth ...
Qin Shi Huangdi, or the First Emperor of Qin, is usually credited with the unification of China. However, the Qin Dynasty ...
Tombs of emperors in the Han Dynasty were marked by earth mounds packed into square shapes with level tops. Tombs from that time are called fangshang for their square shapes. The mausoleum ...
Liu Bang established the powerful Han Dynasty in 206 B.C. During the Han Dynasty, agriculture, handicrafts and commerce flourished, and the population reached 50 million. During his reign (140-87 ...
Courtesy of Tang Yunpeng. A joint archaeological team formed by China and Uzbekistan has discovered a large number of ...
Chinese archaeologists have successfully made distilled ancient wine using a replica of a bronze vessel dating back 2,000 ...
In the first year of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Northern Xiongnu took the opportunity to annex the Western Region and control the Silk Road. The Han court sent Ban Chao on a mission to the Western ...
In this programme, we are in Han Dynasty China, two thousand years ago, exploring the giving of Imperial gifts - an activity which straddles the murky boundary between diplomacy and bribery.