At their apex, the Roman Empire and China’s Han Dynasty ruled over more than 120 million people combined. Their capitals ...

A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...

A new study revealed which ancient empire had the greatest inequality, challenging beliefs about Rome and China.

For centuries, the splendor of Rome and the mythical grandeur of the Han dynasty in China have captured the imagination of ...

Excavation details relating to an Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) tomb cluster in Yuncheng, North China's Shanxi Province, were ...

Learn more about how income inequality may increase the potential for political instability and may have led to the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty.

During the days of China's Han dynasty, when a ruler died his corpse was carefully packed with jade "plugs." These were believed to guarantee immortality for the deceased. A Flight Through the ...

Tombs of emperors in the Han Dynasty were marked by earth mounds packed into square shapes with level tops. Tombs from that time are called fangshang for their square shapes. The mausoleum ...

As you can probably glean from its subtitle, Age of Empires II Definitive Edition: The Three Kingdoms transports players back ...

The Qin dynasty terracotta warriors from Emperor Qin Shihuang’s tomb are some of the most significant and well-known Chinese ...