A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been ...

Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty was the first emperor of ancient China and ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C. He's most ...

Idealism, a hunger for power and a wish to prosper have driven some of the earliest efforts to build a world order.

Archaeologists uncovered 200 ancient tombs in China, offering new insights into early life in the region during the Qin and ...

Archaeologists have discovered hundreds of ancient Qin and Han tombs in Toksun County, near the city of Turpan in northwest China's Xinjiang autonomous region. The findings are part of the country's ...

Nearly any person you speak to has heard of Beijing’s most famous site — the Great Wall of China. However, Beijing is an intriguing city for many other reasons. Ancient temples stand side-by-side with ...

History enthusiasts can explore the free “The Great Unity – Civilisation of the Qin and Han Dynasties in ... terracotta army and relics from the Han dynasty. Some exhibits, including ...

as well as archaeological finds from Qin- and Han-era Hong Kong, like Han dynasty bronze coins unearthed in Tuen Mun, Lamma Island, and Chek Lap Kok, and a pottery model of a house find in the Lei ...

The festival opens with ‘Dongpo: Life in Poems’, where the thoughts and emotions in Song dynasty poet Su Dongpo ... focus on films set in the Qin and Han dynasties, such as the Hong Kong ...

They fostered relations between the Hellenistic world and the Qin and Han dynasties ... of the Sogdian people peaked during the Tang dynasty, approximately from 618 to 907 CE.

In a Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) myth, Emperor Liu Bang, founder of the dynasty, killed a snake when he was still a grassroots official of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) and later he overthrew the ...