The three tombs, which served as a family cemetery, were discovered in the city of Changzhi, Shanxi Province, China, and date ...

Excavations Unearthed Three Brick-Built Tombs With Murals, Revealed Intricacies of Jin Dynasty Elites The Shanxi Institute 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 ...

most of these tombs were of generals, concubines, relatives of royal families and others who had rendered service during the reign of Emperor Wu Di and the Western Han Dynasty. Among the larger ...

A collection of artifacts has been found in one of the largest and most complex Chu-era burials ever found. This cache is ...

Found in the west part of the outer coffin of Liu He’s tomb, the ninth emperor in the Han dynasty, the armor in the form of 6,000 scales took two years to withdraw and restore from degraded ...

the 1:2 scale replica is based on a metal vessel recovered from the tomb of Emperor Liu He, one of the most well-preserved gravesites from the Western Han dynasty (202 BCE-9CE). Liu He’s tenure ...

One of its biggest attractions is the rare collection of excavated Western Han dynasty tombs, known as the Mawangdui. The city also had a very famous resident in Mao Zedong, who studied and lived here ...

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 ...

Chinese archaeologists have discovered a Western Han Dynasty (206BC-AD25) marquis cemetery and nearly 700 other tombs in Xianyang, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province. The cemetery owner is believed to ...

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 Liu ...