Liu Bang established the powerful Han Dynasty in 206 B.C. During the Han Dynasty, agriculture, handicrafts and commerce flourished, and the population reached 50 million.

Historical accounts of the Silk Road begin in China in the 100s, when the Han Dynasty used its many routes to trade with the peoples of Central and South Asia.

By using drones, experts have mapped a desert in China whose people may have learned about irrigation from travelers on the silk road.

Tombs unearthed in China's Xinjiang province along an ancient Silk Road trading route have revealed previously unknown secrets about burial customs in the country.

The Han dynasty systems, however, were oriented towards maximizing the water supply with much less consideration of the labor cost and the efficiency of water use." ...

Is there any more evocative term in travel than “Silk Road”? Reaching back through history to the second century BC and China’s Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD), rulers created it as a route ...

Meat Core CEO Kim Byung-joo is taking a commemorative photo after awarding a trophy to Han Sang-won, who won the ROAD FC 073 lightweight match at Jangchung Gymnasium in Seoul on the 28th. Photo ...

A tablet inscribed with 580 characters depicting the life story of Li Chonghui has recently been found in a Tang Dynasty (618-907) tomb in Turpan, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

As Rome expanded across the Mediterranean, Han dynasty rulers were consolidating their hold on the vast territory of China. Together, these two empires ruled over half the world’s population and ...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Qilainik Over the centuries, Zhengzhou has never been reached by the Silk Road, the network of trade routes formally established during the Han Dynasty of China (206 BCE ...