Bronze - Late Shang dynasty ... After a brief period of instability, Liu Bang founds the Han dynasty. Han Dynasty: first durable state governing the entire Chinese heartland, ushers in first ...

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 ...

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

In the Han Dynasty compasses consisted of a bronze on which 24 directions were carved and a rod made from a natural magnet. Such devices were in use until the eighth century. In the Song Dynasty ...

Archaeologists in China have brewed distilled wine in a replica of a 2,000-year-old bronze vessel unearthed ... the deposed ninth emperor of the Western Han dynasty (202 BC–9 AD), which is ...

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

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).