To connect worlds, one had to protect them. The Han emperors understood this, and the Great Wall was built over 11,000 ...

There are also many miniature wooden farm animals and tools once used as funerary objects — evidence of the thriving ...

as the region still boasts some of the finest beef and mutton in China. Leitai Han Tomb in Wuwei, a 15th-century shrine dedicated to the God of Thunder, sits right atop a tomb dated to around the ...

Not just jade, the techniques of metalworking and chariot-building ... the latter's ancient seabeds and their layered sedimentary rocks. In the 1920s and '30s, a group of Chinese geologists ...

Archaeology is the scientific study of past human life and activities through the recovery and analysis of material remains, ...

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Thinking back on the books I had read during 2024 I was struck by patterns I hadn’t noticed at the time I read them. I found ...

Vehicle components include the partial remains of more than seven four-wheeled wagons and two-wheeled chariots. The find also includes elaborate harnesses for at least 14 ponies, three ceremonial ...

Among the recovered objects are vehicle parts, such as 28 iron rims that may have belonged to chariots or wagons. Additionally, items of great symbolic and ritual value have been identified, including ...