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 emperor of the Han dynasty (206BC - AD220) – in the first ...

The dead emperor had a piece of chan jade in mouth, and was wrapped in "jade clothes sewn with gold thread." Tombs of emperors in the Han Dynasty were marked by earth mounds packed into square ...