Within the caves, the monochrome lifelessness of the ... "Dunhuang" on this bamboo strip some 2,000 years ago, as the Han dynasty (206 B.C. to A.D. 220) was asserting control over much of what ...

The Society for Shaanxi Provincial Archaeology announced on Jan. 6 that the tomb, located in Jingyang County of Xianyang City, consists of five caves and is distinct ... confirmed marquises from the ...

Han says ancient people realized the lethal nature of snake bites. By placing a human head within snakes’ jaws, individuals ...

To investigate this, Dr. Haowen Fan of China University of Geosciences and colleagues analyzed speleothem records from Heshang Cave in central ... core territory of the Han, Tang, Northern Song ...

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 ...