Liu Bang established the powerful Han Dynasty in 206 B.C. During the Han Dynasty, agriculture, handicrafts and commerce flourished, and the population reached 50 million. During his reign (140-87 ...

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

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

After defeating Xiang Yu, Liu Bang resurrected the imperial concept, proclaimed the foundation of the Han Dynasty, and came to be known as Emperor Gaozu of Han. After establishing his new capital ...

Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 composite armour scales unearthed from the tomb of Liu He – the deposed ninth emperor of the Han dynasty (206BC - AD220) – in the first ...