China’s second-century B.C. historian Sima Qian recorded that the emperor’s remains might be ... are working to conserve the 2,200-year-old hues. ROBERT BURCH/ALAMY/CORDON PRESS It is often ...

(Zheng He, sponsored by emperor Yongle, was China's greatest naval explorer ... The Dragon Throne is about 500 years old, carved entirely from rosewood, and finished with yellow lacquer.

It was discovered in 1974 in the Shaanxi province of China. The news coincides with ... how any contact could ruin the body ...

Qin Shi Huang famously sent alchemists east to Japan seeking immortality. Now, a newly discovered inscription suggests he ...

Centuries-old Chinese artifacts have been damaged after a tourist visiting the Museum of the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin ...

A mentally ill tourist in Xi’an damaged two of China’s iconic terracotta warriors after jumping into a protected excavation ...

Languages: English, Spanish Maritime archaeologists have retrieved hundreds of artifacts from two centuries-old shipwrecks that were recently discovered in the South China Sea. The shipwrecks were ...

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