"Dismemberment was considered in Han culture the most humiliating way to die. Execution by dismemberment was the most shameful form of execution. It was done by enemies so that th ...

Liu Bang established the powerful Han Dynasty in 206 B.C. During the Han ... and on to the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Chinese silk goods were traded to the West along the Silk Road.

Scholars in the Han Dynasty summed up the pre-Qin philosophy ... As a result of its features, Chinese philosophy has always had a close relationship with society in its development process.

A recent study published in the journal Archaeometry investigates the recycling of Han Chinese bronze mirrors into Japanese imitation mirrors during the Kofun period (c. 300–538 CE). Lead author ...

Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 composite armour scales unearthed from the tomb of Liu He – the deposed ninth emperor of the Han dynasty (206BC - AD220) – in the first ...