Qin Shi Huangdi, or the First Emperor of Qin, is usually credited ... eventually triumphed over his rivals and founded the Han Dynasty, which would rule over a reunified China for the next four ...

the multi-material armor scales are the first and smallest of its kind ever discovered in Han Dynasty archaeology. Found in the west part of the outer coffin of Liu He’s tomb, the ninth emperor ...

The mausoleum of Emperor Qinshihuang (the first Emperor of Qin ... to the "Biography of Liu Xiang' in the History of the Han Dynasty. Other ruins of Qin buildings can be seen, such as a doorstone ...

so emperors in ancient times cherished excellent cooks. The Historical Records by Sima Qian, a famous historian of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C. - 220), reports that Yi Yin, the first famous prime ...

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 ...

Our cup comes from a turbulent period in the Han Dynasty, when at the centre the emperor was under severe threat and, at the edges of the Empire, he was struggling to keep control. The Han had ...

History records that Liu was given his own territory (Han), but later overthrew Xiang Yu, claiming the title Emperor Gaozu of Han. His dynasty ruled ... As such, the first thing that often strikes ...