Inspired by the Han dynasty, whereby it was common for emperors to have male lovers ... of lust, love and desire. These emotions and feelings can be found throughout Chinese ancient history ...

Here was one of history's great turning points. Had the Chinese emperors continued their huge investments in the treasure fleets, there is little reason why they, rather than the Portuguese ...

With royal figures occupying so much space in history and culture, it makes sense that many monarchs have felt haunted in the ...

But, strangely, nowhere in that book does it mention one very obvious strategy that the power-brokers in Imperial China ... one grandson emperor - who was besotted with his male lover - and ...

On display inside the hall are legends and materials about the life of the Yellow Emperor, representing the great exploits of this ancient hero and founder of the Chinese nation. The Great Hall of ...

A symposium today is a scholarly conference, but in ancient Greece it was an all-male, after-dinner drinking ... and honey in clay jars. Early Chinese emperors had bronze drinking vessels like ...

Profound philosophical thought and a thorough base of knowledge went into the emperors’ diets during the Qing Dynasty. According to the ancient Chinese classic, The National Language – The ...

The ape's skull was discovered inside the tomb of the grandmother of an ancient Chinese emperor. Three Chinese farmers who chanced on the terra cotta army buried with China's first emperor ...

Ancient DNA Reveals the Appearance of a 6th Century Chinese Emperor Mar. 28, 2024 — What did an ancient Chinese emperor from 1,500 years ago look like? A team of researchers reconstructed the ...

Fantasy and romance go hand-in-hand, and that's the case in the anime world as well, with these fantasy-romance representing ...

Ancient Chinese historian Sima Qian wrote an account about 100 years after the emperor's death describing possible booby traps inside the tomb. "Craftsmen were ordered to make crossbows and arrows ...