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Why the year AD1 was also a new era for ancient China
After the weak 13th Western Han Emperor Ai died without leaving an heir in 1BC, Wang supported his cousin, the minor Emperor Ping, to succeed to the throne and named himself regent. The following ...
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Tomb of Chinese emperor Liu He gives up Han dynasty battle secrets with armour find
Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 composite armour scales unearthed from the tomb of Liu He – the deposed ninth emperor of the Han dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD) – in the first ...
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Episode 34 - Chinese Han lacquer cup
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 ...