Food preparation is impossible without cooks, 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 ...

Made of iron, copper, and leather, 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 ...

Tombs of emperors in the Han Dynasty were marked by earth mounds packed into square shapes with level tops. Tombs from that time are called fangshang for their square shapes. The mausoleum ...

According to writings of court historian Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the ... may have been built for the soul of the emperor. Experimental pits dug around the tomb ...

It is a joint tomb of Han Jingdi, the emperor of Jing, an emperor of the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC - 8 AD) and his empress Wang. The tomb was built in the year 153 BC and covers an area of 20 sq km.

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.

claiming the title Emperor Gaozu of Han. His dynasty ruled for four centuries, expanding its territory across much of what we now call China. It united the warring kingdoms and spread Confucianism.

During the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th century-11th century BC) and Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-771 BC), snakes kept their divine status, appeared frequently on bronze ritual vessels and began to ...

dark green jade vase duplicate of a Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) bronze vase with a fish-waterfowl design. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] When Emperor Qianlong (1711-99) ascended the throne in ...

Narrator: The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty in China ... they dressed differently and were culturally different from the Han. However, as they lived close to the Ming border, even ...

Like almost every country, especially those spanning vast territories, China went through a unification process that culminated during the reign of the Qin dynasty, in the era known as the Warring ...