Archaeologists haven’t dared look inside the tomb of China’s first Emperor. Chances are you’re aware of Qin Shi Huang’s final resting place, even if you’ve never heard of him. He was the first person ...

Sima Qian's calendar was considered revolutionary, setting 365.25 days to a year, and 29.53 days to a month The planet 12620 is named Simaqian in his honour Sima thought the purpose of history was ...

Archaeologists are terrified to open the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor who has been buried for 2,200 years. The tomb of Qin Shu Huang, who ruled from 221 BC to 210 BC, is guarded by a ...

A new study has corroborated an account of the Han conquest of the Nanyue kingdom in southern China (203-111BC) by ancient historian Sima Qian. The researchers also linked the watershed military ...

Most of what is known about the tomb's interior comes from the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian, who describes mercury being used to depict the hundred rivers, including the Yangtze ...

For the moment, the only description of the burial chamber’s interior comes from yet another ancient historical document, a text written by the Han dynasty chronicler Sima Qian, who described ...

In 94 B.C., the Chinese historian Sima Qian wrote, “In the area south of the Yangtze the land is low and the climate humid; adult males die young.” In the third century, malaria epidemics ...

Hundreds of thousands more toiled to build palaces, canals, and roads. According to Han historian Sima Qian, they also built “border defenses along the [Yellow] river, constructing 44 walled ...

The book is attributed to Sun Tzu but its authorship is unclear. According to the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian (91 BCE), the great military strategist Sun Wu, whom we know as Sun ...

It took Sima Qian 18 years to compile more than 520,000 words, covering individual biographies and major events over a period spanning 2,000 years. For comparison, a fairly standard 300-page book ...

And what happened to Zhang Qian? The Shiji tells us, the masterpiece of Sima Qian (the founder of Chinese historiography), usually published with titles like “Historical Records” or “Memoirs of the ...

In chronicles of Gaozu’s rule such as Sima Qian’s, the dragon became inseparable from imperial authority and ascendancy. It also emerged as a unifying agent for ethnically Han Chinese people ...