son of King Userkaf, the founding monarch of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty, in the Saqqara necropolis. Hawass revealed that the mission found a statue ensemble depicting King Djoser, his wife, and their ...

Xin's opportunity finally arrives when his childhood friend Piao passes on a dying message to meet someone who looks just like Piao, the king of Qin, Ying Zheng. Taking place during China's ...

Lu acted as regent when Zheng inherited the throne at age 13, but by the age of 24, the young king had ... himself Qin Shi Huangdi or "First Sovereign Emperor of the Qin Dynasty".

In 221BC, the Qin dynasty unified China. But what was so significant about this event that occurred over 2,200 years ago? After all, the Chinese nation splintered and reunified multiple times ...

Rather, it was to restrain a king who was using his legal powers rather too keenly. John was born in 1167. He was his father’s youngest son, and although the Plantagenet dynasty established by ...

a Macedonian royal dynasty that claimed direct descent from Zeus and Hercules, established their capital here. According to legend, the first Temenid king, Perdiccas, was told by the oracle at ...

Hero takes place in China during the rule of the Qin Empire. The empire is trying to take over six other kingdoms, which makes their king a target for assassination ... members to overthrow the Qing ...

As the Qin, China's first dynasty, lasted only from 221 to 206 BC, that sentence may strike you as reckless hyperbole. Mao certainly didn't think so. In May 1958, having silenced most of China's ...

Trust us. It's worth it. Amongst the seven divided kingdoms of China, a Nameless man (Jet Li) has an audience with the King of Qin and recounts his stories of defeating three great assassins—each who ...

That’s both a glib summary of what happens in the new Easter-season animated movie The King of Kings and a description of this cut-rate attempt by Angel Studios to revive the Biblical epic.

This will both serve as a reunion for the original King of the Hill series with special stories from behind the scenes, but will also showcase the first look at details for the coming revival ...