The Historical Records by Sima Qian, a famous historian of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C. - 220), reports that Yi Yin, the first famous prime minister in known Chinese history, helped Tang (the first ...

Throughout history, as any anthropologist will tell ... In this programme, we are in Han Dynasty China, two thousand years ago, exploring the giving of Imperial gifts - an activity which straddles ...

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Eastern Han Dynasty paper found in Wuwei ... which ushered in a major revolution in the history of printing. Bi's printing consisted of four processes: making the types, composing the text ...

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 ...