Han walks me outside and to the restaurant, where the crowds aren’t yet lined up out the door (the new room seats 180 people, all told) but are certainly headed in that direction.

Found in the west part of the outer coffin of Liu He’s tomb, the ninth emperor in the Han dynasty, the armor in the form of 6,000 scales took two years to withdraw and restore from degraded ...

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There are believed to have been several versions, with the one widely in use today, featuring 20 chapters, compiled by a scholar during the Western Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 24).

Picture of pottery figurines in the tomb of the Wen Emperor, the third emperor of the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-AD25). Photo: IC The identity of the owner of an ancient tomb near Xi'an dating ...

That dynasty, which existed for 426 years beginning in 206 B.C., “marked the first apex of Chinese civilization,” as curators at the Asian Art Museum describe it.

Picture of pottery figurines in the tomb of the Wen Emperor, the third emperor of the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-AD25). Photo: IC The identity of the owner of an ancient tomb near Xi'an dating ...