The bells featured 3,755 inscribed Chinese characters -- the only known systematic musical treatise from the 5th century B.C. They were part of a lavish musical trove buried alongside Marquis Yi, a ...

More than 3,000 years ago during the Zhou dynasty (1025-221BC), ancient Chinese ... for Han Chinese rebels to revolt against the Mongol rulers. According to folk tales, Mongol guards were ...

The incredible religious complex was also home to northern Azerbaijan’s rulers. Everywhere ... first built during the reign of King Xuan (827–782 BC) of the Western Zhou Dynasty and later rebuilt in ...

The Zhou Dynasty first articulated this concept in the first millennium ... Within this tributary system, states sent embassies to perform ritual submission to the Chinese emperor. Rulers of compliant ...

One of the key historical events on 29 April includes the demise of Iltutmish in 1236, a pivotal ruler from the Slave Dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate ... Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and China's ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

Thousands of starving farmers, their faces smeared with ox blood, marched toward the opulent vaults held by the Han dynasty's elite rulers. As recorded in the ancient text Han Shu (the book of Han ...

But scholars have now found that Zhouyuan was already the capital for the Zhou people before they overthrew the Shang Dynasty (c.16th century to 11th century BC) and established the Western Zhou ...

For over 800 years from around 1050BC to 221BC, China was organised as a feudal state under the Zhou dynasty.