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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than anyone else, he was responsible for establishing the new dynasty and making Han Gaozu (漢高祖) emperor. However, his extraordinary talent became his undoing. Gaozu felt insecure ruling over an ...

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 ...

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 ...