In 221 BCE, King Ying Zheng of Qin conquered the rival warring states and established the Qin empire as Qin Shi Huangdi (The ...

At their apex, the Roman Empire and China’s Han Dynasty ruled over more than 120 million people combined. Their capitals ...

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 ...

For centuries, the splendor of Rome and the mythical grandeur of the Han dynasty in China have captured the imagination of ...

A new study revealed which ancient empire had the greatest inequality, challenging beliefs about Rome and China.

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 ...

A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...

The tree's historical significance dates back to 110 BC when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220) visited Songshan ...

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

and the Han Dynasty in the east (which incorporated much of what is modern-day China, Vietnam and Korea). At their apex, each presided over a territory of 1.5 million square miles (four million square ...