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 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 ...

The Terracotta Army Of China Is World Famous, But Few Are Aware Of Another Incredible Discovery Only A Few Miles Away ...

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 ...

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

Our cup comes from a turbulent period in the Han Dynasty, when at the centre the emperor was under severe threat and, at the edges of the Empire, he was struggling to keep control. The Han had ...

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 ...