This is the first armor piece of its kind, made of a splendid array of materials, ever discovered, extracted, and restored from China’s Han Dynasty. However, archaeologists don’t yet know what ...

Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 composite armour scales unearthed from the tomb of Liu He – the deposed ninth emperor of the Han dynasty (206BC - AD220) – in the first ...

The masterfully crafted suits were "built as armor" to protect the ... in Hebei province in northeastern China. The suits ...

Liu Bang established the powerful Han Dynasty in 206 B.C. During the Han ... and on to the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Chinese silk goods were traded to the West along the Silk Road.

At the Nanjing University of Technology the clothes and culture of the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty are making a comeback. Students wear traditional hanfu dress - a long, loose-fitting kimono-style ...

In this programme, we are in Han Dynasty China, two thousand years ago, exploring the giving of Imperial gifts - an activity which straddles the murky boundary between diplomacy and bribery.