A pleading letter from a palace servant, Liu, to King Huan, his ruler and king of the Zhou Dynasty, 700 B.C. My Lord, I know that I am simply a humble palace servant. There are thousands of us.

"I'm sure he very much tried to restore the so-called golden age, or golden rule of Zhou dynasty, particularly in the rule under the Duke of Zhou." In the 5th Century BC, Europe had Socrates and ...

In the Chinese case we have, for instance, the ineffable King You of Zhou, to whom a bad prank ended up depriving him from his throne and turning him the last one in his dynasty. We are talking about ...

Archaeologists have recently excavated two ancient tombs dating back to the Western Zhou Dynasty (11th century BC-771 BC) and discovered many precious articles in Baoji city, west China's Shaanxi ...

This “golden age” has illuminated the artistic and spiritual landscape of a critical period in the country’s history: the multistate Zhou dynasty, which lasted from around 1050 to 221 B.C.E ...

Chinese archaeologists have recently discovered eight tombs dating back to the Zhou Dynasty (1046BC-256BC) at a ruins site in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, a region rich in cultural relics ...

Researchers say the tomb belongs to the founding emperor of China's Northern Zhou dynasty, which lasted from 557-581 A.D., based on an epitaph located on the eastern side of its entrance.