The First Emperor has a reputation for ruling China ... proclaimed the foundation of the Han Dynasty, and came to be known as Emperor Gaozu of Han. After establishing his new capital at Chang ...

During his reign (140-87 B.C.), the most prosperous period of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, Emperor Wudi ... Buddhism spread to China in the first century. In 105, an official named Cai Lun invented ...

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 ...

The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor of China ... Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the mausoleum's ...

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 He’s tomb, the ninth emperor ...

Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 composite armour scales unearthed from the tomb of Liu He – the deposed ninth emperor of the Han dynasty (206BC - AD220) – in the first ...