Archaeologists discovered three 1,800-year-old tombs from ancient China. The design of the tombs resembles that of a ...

Photo: China News Service. A "very well-preserved" cliff tomb dating back to the Han Dynasty (206BC-AD220) was found recently in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, a city famously built in ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty prince and princess–fully intact. Their tombs, filled with grave goods ...

Mawangdui Han Dynasty Tomb ... Among the more than 3,000 relics unearthed, were exquisite lacquer-ware, musical instruments, silk paintings, pottery and Chinese medicinal herbs.

On May 22, 1968, a team of Chinese soldiers was blasting rock near the top of Lingshan Mountain in Hebei province when they discovered the 2,000-year-old tomb of Liu Sheng, a king of the Western ...

The tomb provides a rare glimpse into the Western Han dynasty’s feudal system, where emperors consolidated power by granting titles and estates to loyal officials and family members. This system not ...

According to the archaeological leader of the project, Huang Wei, a number of tombs were discovered dating from the Han Dynasty to the Six Dynasties, a period that stretches from 206 B.C. to 589 A.D.

More than 2,100 years ago, a high-ranking official in China’s Western Han Dynasty was buried in a huge tomb filled with treasures. Since then, the tomb has remained untouched, its contents well ...