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 ...

The Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology in North China's Shanxi Province has revealed new excavation findings ...

Liu Bang established the powerful Han Dynasty in 206 B.C. During the Han ... As contacts between the East and West increased, Buddhism spread to China in the first century. In 105, an official ...

In this programme, we are in Han Dynasty China, two thousand years ago, exploring the giving of Imperial gifts - an activity which straddles the murky boundary between diplomacy and bribery.

China was the first country in the world to make proper paper. Paper made during the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-16 AD) has been found in Gansu Province, Xi'an and other places in Shaanxi Province ...

Earliest records show a spoon shaped compass made of lodestone or magnetite ore, referred to as a "South-pointer" dating back to sometime during the Han Dynasty (2nd century BCE to 2nd century CE).

Xuzhou is a city steeped in a glorious past. Having not only witnessed the birth of the Han, arguably China’s defining dynasty, it also hides one of its most important treasures. Gazing at the ...