A collection of artifacts has been found in one of the largest and most complex Chu-era burials ever found. This cache is revealing new things about the birth of China.
[Photo provided to China Daily] Researchers ... of the early Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-771 BC), offering important historical insights into the pre-Qin era. In 2008, Tsinghua ...
DEEP in the ancient burial grounds of China’s first emperor ... such as [the] commanding system in the Qin dynasty," said Xiuzhen Janice Li, an archaeologist from the University of Oxford.
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.
The Chinese Qin Emperor's Terracotta Army ... chamber’s interior comes from yet another ancient historical document, a text written by the Han dynasty chronicler Sima Qian, who described ...
the year before he established the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) and became China's first emperor, Qinshihuang. Earlier studies show the city site in the Liulihe Site had the rammed earth remains of ...