The confederation spent centuries engaging in a series of on-off wars with China, but were eventually defeated by the Han dynasty (206BC-AD220) in the first century AD and the empire splintered.

Our cup comes from a turbulent period in the Han Dynasty, when at the centre the emperor was under severe threat and, at the edges of the Empire, he was struggling to keep control. The Han had ...

The Han Dynasty set up a Frontier Command Headquarters ... In the 13th century, the Mongolians established the united multi-ethnic Great Yuan Empire (1206-1368). The Yuan Dynasty practiced a ...

Instead, Liu ruled his empire from Chang’an (now Xian), where ... of stone carvings that span the Han and the Qing eras. The Han Dynasty was famed for its carving skills, recording local events ...

The tomb, dating from the reign of Wang Mang (9-23) to the early Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), has yielded various artifacts including ceramics, copper, lead, and glass items and a distinctive ...

Han Solo likes to avoid any imperial entanglements ... except for that time he nearly joined the Empire. That's the main thing we learned from the Super Bowl teaser for Solo: A Star Wars Story ...

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

Our cup comes from a turbulent period in the Han Dynasty, when at the centre the emperor was under severe threat and, at the edges of the Empire, he was struggling to keep control. The Han had ...