While the Qin dynasty collapsed in 207 BCE, China was reunified by Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty. During four centuries of Han rule, China expanded its frontiers in all directions and ...

According to writings of court historian Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the mausoleum's construction shortly after taking the throne. More than 700,000 laborers worked on ...

Archaeologists have discovered hundreds of ancient Qin and Han tombs in Toksun County, near the city of Turpan in northwest China's Xinjiang autonomous region. The findings are part of the country's ...

The new museum - SHM Qin-Han Civilization Museum - is located ... About 2,000 years ago, in the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-AD25), a Chinese envoy named Zhang Qian began his expedition to the ...

Visitors are seen at the media preview of the exhibition "Terracotta Warriors and Ancient China: Heritage from the Qin and Han Dynasty" at the Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo, Japan, on Nov. 21 ...

The thousands of clay soldiers guarding Qin Shi Huang’s tomb are enduring representations of the ruler’s legacy Arthur Lubow; Updated by Sonja Anderson Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum holds an ...

as well as archaeological finds from Qin- and Han-era Hong Kong, like Han dynasty bronze coins unearthed in Tuen Mun, Lamma Island, and Chek Lap Kok, and a pottery model of a house find in the Lei ...

Shaanxi, May 19 (BNA): A new museum that focuses on ancient Chinese civilization in the Qin Dynasty (221 BC-207 BC) and Han Dynasty (202 BC-AD 220) officially opened to the public on Saturday in ...

The Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Dynasty may have stood at opposite ends of the Eurasian continent, but they did experience one thing in common - high levels of income inequality. A team of ...