Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty was the first emperor of ancient China and ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C. He's most ...

in ancient China, it probably was used as a tool to solidify social hierarchies. A team of scientists recently analysed a bronze-age tomb from the Qijia culture (2200BC-1600BC) located in Gansu ...

IN his Conway Memorial Lecture, "Science and Society in Ancient China", delivered ... out that the status of military technology may deeply affect the crystallization of social philosophy, and ...

"(This system) was mapped into burial patterns, whereby social status (was ... with references to the penal and medical systems of ancient China, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences ...

Historians estimate the painting to be between 5,000 and 10,000 years old, solidifying Altay's status as the "the ancient cradle of skiing". In ancient China, skiing emerged as the earliest winter ...

Ancient Buddhist murals in northwestern China are under “direct threat” as a result of unprecedented levels of rainfall brought about by climate change, researchers said this week. Extreme ...

Human sacrifice has played a gruesome but important role in ancient history, and thousands of years ago, in ancient China, it probably was used as a tool to solidify social hierarchies.