Without a doubt, the ancient Egyptians are the experts in body preservation and mummification. However, they were not the ...
Since the early Western Han Dynasty there had taken place a large-scale removal of merited personnel and high officials, their kith and kin and families to Changling to protect Emperor Wu Di's tomb.
A newly discovered rectangular chariot and horse pit in Baoji, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province has provided key evidence that the Qin state had already established a tradition of chariot and horse ...
a king of the Western Han dynasty, and his wife, Dou Wan. They both died in the second century B.C.E. The soldiers had been ...
The cooking skills employed in the Hunan cuisine reached a high standard as early as the Western Han Dynasty, giving it a history of more than 2,100 years. Hunan is located in southeastern China ...
The Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24) later advanced and further solidified this system. In 60 BC, the Han court established the Western Regions Frontier Command, adopting the "ruling according ...
Concealed on the western side of a shell-shaped rise named ... of stone carvings that span the Han and the Qing eras. The Han Dynasty was famed for its carving skills, recording local events ...
YANG MENGJIE/FOR CHINA DAILY In Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, Fengxian county — the hometown of Liu Bang who founded the Western ...
Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 composite armour scales unearthed from the tomb of Liu He – the deposed ninth emperor of the Han dynasty (206BC - AD220) – in the first ...
from the Western Zhou dynasty (1046-771BC), alongside earthenware burial objects that reflect the daily life and culinary practices of the Han dynasty (206BC-AD220), to illustrate the lengths to ...