China already had a long history by the time its states were unified under its first emperor. Settlements in ... According to Han historian Sima Qian, they also built “border defenses along ...

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 ...

Liu Heng (203-157 BC), or Emperor Wen of Han, was the third emperor of the Western Han Dynasty. He was famed ... as the Rule of Wen and Jing, the first period of general stability and prosperity ...

No word on how it tastes, though it probably made a good cup 2,150 years ago Danny Lewis Archaeologists exploring a nearly 2,200-year-old Chinese tomb belonging to an emperor of the Han Dynasty ...

Chinese archaeologists say they have discovered the first complete skeleton of ... near a sprawling mausoleum belonging to Emperor Wen of the Han dynasty, who reigned from 180 to 157 B.C. Its ...

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 ...

Archaeologists exploring a nearly 2,200-year-old Chinese tomb belonging to an emperor of the Han Dynasty recently stumbled on a treasure: the oldest tea ever found. This new find not only provides ...