Huang Wei via Xinhua News and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences More than 2,100 years ago, a high-ranking official in China’s Western Han Dynasty was buried in a huge tomb filled with ...

Archaeologists Went Digging Under a Chinese Zoo—and Uncovered 148 Tombs Spanning Thousands of Years Some are from the Han Dynasty. Others are from the 1900s.

A newly renovated museum at the Dabaotai Tomb site in Beijing officially opened to the public on Tuesday, offering a rare glimpse into the burial practices and cultural landscape of the Western ...

According to the archaeological leader of the project, Huang Wei, a number of tombs were discovered dating from the Han Dynasty to the Six Dynasties, a period that stretches from 206 B.C. to 589 A.D.

The danglu found in the M2 tomb is rare and distinctive of the Han Dynasty (206BC-AD220)," Liu Zheng, a member of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics told the Global Times on Thursday.

Exhibition "Splendid Finds: The Archaeological Excavations at the Royal Cemetery of Haihunhou Kingdom in Han Dynasty" was displayed at the Capital Museum from March 2, 2016 – June 26, 2016.

Han dynasty scales were typically 4cm to 10cm wide, Bai said. Even the finely crafted armour scales from the tomb of Liu Sheng, a prince of the Western Han empire (202 BC – AD9), were 2cm to 3cm ...

Chinese archaeologists find first complete panda burial in 2,000-year-old Han dynasty tomb The animal, which may have been kept as a status symbol, had been sacrificed and buried with the Emperor ...