BEIJING, CHINA—The clothing has been removed from four 2,200-year-old mummies that were discovered in northwest China in 2007, at a site where more than 30 tombs have yielded mummies, silk, wool ...

On May 22, 1968, a team of Chinese soldiers was blasting rock near the top of Lingshan Mountain in Hebei province when they ...

Murals in the Han Dynasty reflect the figures’ characteristics and the texture of their clothes through the use of shading. While in the late Western Han Dynasty, figures and objects were just ...

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.

New discoveries at the Mawangdui, an ancient Chinese #tomb complex from the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-AD25), have revealed that a “pillow cover” was China’s earliest silk seat cushion. Plus ...

The tombs sharing a similar design are located 400 miles from Beijing and likely date back to the powerful Han dynasty, which ruled over the region for four centuries from 206 BC to 220 AD ...

More than 2,100 years ago, a high-ranking official in China’s Western Han Dynasty was buried in a huge tomb filled with treasures. Since then, the tomb has remained untouched, its contents well ...

More than 2,100 years ago, a high-ranking official in China’s Western Han Dynasty was buried in a huge tomb filled with treasures. Since then, the tomb has remained untouched, its contents well ...

Located in the eastern suburbs of Chansha, the Mawangdui Han Dynasty Tombs were uncovered in 1972. The tombs, which date back some 2,100 years to the Western Han dynasty (206BC-25AD), contained ...

Gold, intricate seals, and rare treasures buried for over two millennia have emerged from a tomb in China’s Shaanxi province, believed to belong to Tian Qianqiu — a revered prime minister of the Han ...

State-run news agency Xinhau reports that most of the mirrors date to between the Warring States Period of 475 to 221 B.C. and the late Western Han dynasty, which ended around 9 A.D.