Like almost every country, especially those spanning vast territories, China went through a unification process that ...

A collection of artifacts has been found in one of the largest and most complex Chu-era burials ever found. This cache is ...

Accordingly, while Qin Shi Huang was the first ruler to unify China, it was the Han dynasty founded by Liu Bang that established a stable imperial polity that normalized the concept of a single ...

The fourth national cultural relics census has uncovered three ancient sites from the Pre-Qin period (Prior to 221BC) and Han ...

According to writings of court historian Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the mausoleum's construction shortly after taking the throne. More than 700,000 laborers worked on ...

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.

Thus the general plan of today's Great Wall was laid down during the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC). During the Han Dynasty (206 BC- AD 220) Which followed the Qin, in addition to making improvements in ...

The Han Dynasty was famed for its carving skills ... than their life-sized Qin Dynasty counterparts in Xi’an. But many experts have argued that they are far more distinctive.