The museum devotes an exhibition to an often overlooked era of Chinese bronzes, emphasizing both the artistic and political ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei. Historians do not know her birth name or in what year she was ...

Throughout history, as any anthropologist will tell ... of course, is that the Chinese Empire is immense, and that it straddles a hugely diverse geographic region. And in the case of the Han ...

Scientists have discovered a genetic link between the Huns who ravaged Europe in the latter years of the Western Roman Empire and the ... eventual defeat by the Chinese Han empire hundreds of ...

PRESENTER:'The Chinese Empire ended in 1911 ... that it held the key not only to history, but to the future. PRESENTER:The 12 people sitting here were the representatives of just 57 members.

The phrase “Chinese Bronze” is, for most, synonymous with the austere vessels used in ancient state rituals or ancestor worship from about 1500 B.C. through A.D. 200. “Recasting the Past ...