Han dynasty armor was composed from a single-material ... left behind one of the largest “treasure trove” of artifacts, earning his tomb a prestigious spot as one of China’s top six ...

There are also many miniature wooden farm animals and tools once used as funerary objects — evidence of the thriving agriculture and livestock farming in the corridor's oasis towns. One of these towns ...

Since Li Bing, then a governor of Sichuan, built the Dujiangyan Irrigation Project around 256 BC, the Chengdu Plain has had ...

For many years it has been known as Zither-Playing Terrace; some say it was Sima Xiangru, a famous man of letters of the Western Han Dynasty ... historical records of artifacts to serve as ...

Exhibits in the Hall of the History of Ancient Chinese Agriculture Technology include Neolithic Age artifacts (a 6,900-year-old bone spade) and Han Dynasty iron hoe and sickle. The Hall of ...