Renamed Marquis of Haihun and situated in Jiangxi’s capital Nanchang in China, the shortlived emperor’s tomb turned up with yet another significant discovery that presented Han Dynasty ...

In 202 BC, Liu Bang (256 BC-195 BC) defeated Xiang Yu (232 BC-202 BC) and set up the Western Han imperial court (206 BC-AD 24), founding its capital at Chang'an, with magnificent city walls and ...

The emperor had a reputation as a brutal ... Accordingly, while Qin Shi Huang was the first ruler to unify China, it was the Han dynasty founded by Liu Bang that established a stable imperial ...

Ever since there were emperors and palaces ... Sesame came to China during the Western Han Dynasty and soybeans were native to China, but the other oil-bearing crops did not enter China until ...

Workers digging a well outside the city of Xi'an, China, in 1974 struck upon one ... of court historian Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the mausoleum's construction shortly ...

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

In this programme, we are in Han Dynasty China, two thousand years ago ... when at the centre the emperor was under severe threat and, at the edges of the Empire, he was struggling to keep ...

[PHOTO BY WANG JIANG/FOR CHINA DAILY] Han and Ming Great Wall protection leads ... mounds and barriers. In 121 BC, Han Dynasty emperor Liu Che sent General Huo Qubing to the western region of the ...

Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 composite armour scales unearthed from the tomb of Liu He – the deposed ninth emperor of the Han dynasty ... were found in China’s eastern ...

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...

Han China Chinese They are the largest ethnic group in China. The previous Ming dynasty emperors were Han. Tibetan Tibet Tibetan They are mostly Buddhist and are often nomadic, although there are ...