I n 1996, a team of archaeologists discovered the tomb of Emperor Wu—the sixth-century ruler who reigned over the Northern ...

An impious and incompetent ruler would displease the gods ... But nonetheless, the Zhou Dynasty lasted for as long as the Roman Empire, and indeed longer than any other dynasty in Chinese history.

But how did the Zhou leader rise to become the "supreme ruler of all under heaven" depicted ... From at least the time of the Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-771 BC) and even earlier ...

Their age, estimated at 2,300 to 2,500 years, places them in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, whose rulers governed portions of China from 771 and 256 BCE. Wang and colleagues write in their report ...

An impious and incompetent ruler would displease the gods ... But nonetheless, the Zhou Dynasty lasted for as long as the Roman Empire, and indeed longer than any other dynasty in Chinese history.

Some relics of the Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-771 BC) that were excavated from the Zhouyuan Site: an oracle bone with inscription recording a Zhou king's assembling order for vassal ...

An impious and incompetent ruler would displease the gods ... But nonetheless, the Zhou Dynasty lasted for as long as the Roman Empire, and indeed longer than any other dynasty in Chinese history.