These newly found tombs were family burial sites dating back to the Han-ruled Ming Dynasty, which ruled between 1368 and 1644. Discovering and opening Chinese can be extremely dangerous ...

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 ...

Located in the eastern suburbs of Chansha, the Mawangdui Han Dynasty Tombs were uncovered in 1972. The tombs, which date back some 2,100 years to the Western Han dynasty (206BC-25AD), contained ...

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 ...

For nearly 200 years, the dynasty thrived at the crossroads ... are distinctive to the Western Xia Imperial Tombs. "The Tanguts embraced Han civilization but reshaped it to forge their own ...

The mausoleum in suburban Anyang, Henan province, seemed not to match the fame of its occupant, the late Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) warlord and poet Cao Cao.

According to writings of court historian Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the ... but the total may never be known. Qin's tomb itself remains unexcavated, though Siam ...

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 ...

GANSU- Dunhuang Museum, located in Danhuang city in China’s northwestern Gansu province, is a perfect place to gain some ...

The Han dynasty tombs were packed with some of the empire's most valuable relics. To guard against theft, colossal stones, each weighing six tons History of Now When the German parliamentary ...

The passage leading to the main tomb chamber at the Cao Cao Mausoleum ... the late Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) warlord and poet Cao Cao. Standing in front of the Cao Cao Mausoleum Museum, I ...