A recent study published in the journal Archaeometry investigates the recycling of Han Chinese bronze mirrors into Japanese imitation mirrors during the Kofun period (c. 300–538 CE). Lead author ...

16th century-11th century BC) wine vessel and a Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24) celestial horse sculpture. The emergence of the ...

Leitai Han Tomb in Wuwei, a 15th-century shrine dedicated to the God of Thunder, sits right atop a tomb dated to around the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries. COURTESY OF GANSU PROVINCIAL MUSEUM AND ...

Han dynasty armor was composed from a single-material ... Exceptionally, whoever crafted the military garment used iron, bronze, and leather lacquered materials. Furthermore, archaeologists ...

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 ...

Their discovery in the region attests to Han Dynasty's firm control over Hexi ... One of its prized artifacts is a massive bronze wok, standing at 118 cm in height and weighing 230 kilograms.