These newly found tombs were family burial sites dating back to the Han-ruled Ming Dynasty, which ruled between 1368 and 1644. Discovering and opening Chinese can be extremely dangerous ...

In some of the corridors, clay horses are aligned four abreast ... According to writings of court historian Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the mausoleum's construction ...

The tomb, dating from the reign of Wang Mang (9-23) to the early Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), has yielded various artifacts including ceramics, copper, lead, and glass items and a distinctive ...

Eastern Han Dynasty paper found in Wuwei ... Before paper was invented, the ancient Chinese carved characters on pottery, animal bones and stones, cast them on bronzes, or wrote them on bamboo ...

Gazing at the burial pits of Xuzhou’s Han Dynasty tombs in Yunlong Park ... of infantry and horses sketched in rough, grey earthen clay. China’s other terracotta army. To understand why ...

WANG KAIHAO/WANG RU/CHINA DAILY Archaeological studies indicate that the mausoleum once had structures above ground, which ...

Common bricks and tiles made in the Han Dynasty can be found nearly everywhere around the mausoleum. Moreover, small pottery figurines have been unearthed in the area, all of which are lifelike ...

Back in the Han dynasty (206BC-220AD), scholar Dongfang ... She moulded humans from clay into different shapes and sizes. These people later became the nobility, or society’s upper class ...