Its construction is no less formidable than that of Qin and Han tombs. Once they established their powerful regime, these Tibetan kings gathered mammoth amounts of wealth, and built magnificent ...

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 ...

The tomb, dating from the reign of Wang Mang (9-23) to the early Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), has yielded various artifacts including ceramics, copper, lead, and glass items and a distinctive ...

Made of iron, copper, and leather, the multi-material armor scales are the first and smallest of its kind ever discovered in Han Dynasty archaeology. Found in the west part of the outer coffin of ...

Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 composite armour scales unearthed from the tomb of Liu He – the deposed ninth emperor of the Han dynasty (206BC - AD220) – in the first ...