Chen is as much a master of claborate -style painting as his hero is of horse drawings from the Tang Dynasty. Chen's detailed strokes and complicated dyeing skills run parallel with Han's ...

Days ago, in the article dedicated to Zhang Qian’s travels, we referred to a conflict that pitted China during the Han Dynasty against the Kingdom of Dayuan in Central Asia. Its inhabitants possessed ...

Having not only witnessed the birth of the Han, arguably China’s defining dynasty, it also hides one ... row after row of infantry and horses sketched in rough, grey earthen clay.

A 19th-century drawing of a Malayan tapir Public domain via Wikimedia Commons While Han dynasty rulers may have had a particular penchant for pandas, the number of sacrificial pits and the ...

Nestled among Tang dynasty horses, stoic Han dynasty figurines, and a 3,000-year-old Neolithic vase is a miniature bust of a woman with a fresh yellow flower tucked behind her ear, protruding from ...

Archaeologists exploring a nearly 2,200-year-old Chinese tomb belonging to an emperor of the Han Dynasty recently stumbled ... several chariots complete with horses. Alongside these relics ...

It is the story of “The Old Man Who Lost His Horse” and all Chinese know it. During the Han Dynasty—in the third century B.C.—an old man living on China’s border one day lost his horse.

The bronze chariot drawn by four horses was unearthed in 1980 near the mausoleum of Emperor Qinshihuang of the Qin Dynasty (221 ... art of sculpture and colored drawing. Besides traditional ...

A stuffed toy based on a famous 2000-year-old bronze horse artefact has become China’s most sought-after tourism souvenir in recent weeks because of its “ugly but cute” appearance.