Since the early Western Han Dynasty there had taken place a large-scale removal of merited personnel and high officials, their kith and kin and families to Changling to protect Emperor Wu Di's tomb.

Born in the first year of the reign of Emperor Wu Di (140 BC), Huo Qubing was a young military expert during the Western Hah Dynasty, who was commanding troops by the age of eighteen. He led his ...

Chinese archaeologists have discovered a Western Han Dynasty (206BC-AD25) marquis cemetery and nearly 700 other tombs in Xianyang, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province. The cemetery owner is believed to ...

The tomb’s design and facilities mirror those of confirmed marquises from the Western Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 25). The tomb complex features sloped ramps leading to deep, rectangular burial pits, a ...

The Liao dynasty (907–1125) of China and its successor, the Western Liao (1124–1211), were founded by the Khitan, a proto-Mongol people who were originally nomadic pastoralists residing in modern ...

The bronze still was discovered at the tomb of Liu He, the deposed ninth emperor of the Western Han dynasty (202BC-AD9). It is one of the best preserved tombs from that dynasty. The team presented ...

This trend continued through the Western Han dynasty (206BC – AD24). The Qin was China’s first imperial dynasty, with its capital at Xianyang in what is now the northwestern province of Shaanxi.

Details of new discoveries spanning 2,000 years from the Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-771 BC) to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) have recently been released by the Beijing Municipal Cultural ...