Renamed Marquis of Haihun and situated in Jiangxi’s capital Nanchang in China, the shortlived emperor’s tomb turned up with yet another significant discovery that presented Han Dynasty ...

At their apex, the Roman Empire and China’s Han Dynasty ruled over ... both realms ruled by emperors and an army of bureaucratic lackeys. In the ancient world, as in the modern one, wealth ...

The buried roots and stumps of an ancient forest in southern China are the charred remains of an ancient war and the burning ...

Earliest records show a spoon shaped compass made of lodestone or magnetite ore, referred to as a "South-pointer" dating back to sometime during the Han Dynasty (2nd century ... it was used for ...

For a long time, the ancient empires of Rome and China’s Han dynasty have fascinated historians and archaeologists. These two powerful civilizations shaped much of the world’s early history. But which ...

Tree healer Jin Hongjun, 55, vividly recalls the painstaking efforts to save China's beloved 4,500-year-old "General ... The tree's historical significance dates back to 110 BC when Emperor Wu of the ...

The 700-year-old scroll by renowned calligrapher Rao Jie fetched over $32 million after a heated bidding battle at Sotheby’s.

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 ...

Rich families in Shang China ... Emperor") and builds first Great Wall of China, but his empire quickly collapses after his death. After a brief period of instability, Liu Bang founds the Han dynasty.

[PHOTO BY WANG JIANG/FOR CHINA DAILY ... the ancient remains of two parallel Great Walls extend. They were built at different times — one dates back to the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) and ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's engaging "Recasting the Past" exhibition looks at the antiquarian spirit in China since the 12th century.

China’s long-unified identity and language has enabled academics to track cycles of growth and inequality in thousand-year-old economic records. This is what they reveal.