Qin Shi Huangdi, or the First Emperor of Qin, is usually credited with the unification of China. However, the Qin Dynasty ...

During his reign (140-87 B.C.), the most prosperous period of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, Emperor Wudi ... Buddhism spread to China in the first century. In 105, an official named Cai Lun invented ...

The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor of China ... Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the mausoleum's ...

Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 composite armour scales unearthed from the tomb of Liu He – the deposed ninth ...

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 ...

Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 composite armour scales unearthed from the tomb of Liu He – the deposed ninth emperor of the Han dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD) – in the first ...

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 ...

Our cup comes from a turbulent period in the Han Dynasty, when at the centre the emperor was under severe threat and, at the edges of the Empire, he was struggling to keep control. The Han had ...