In this programme, we are in Han Dynasty China, two thousand years ago, exploring the giving of Imperial gifts - an activity which straddles the murky boundary between diplomacy and bribery.

Scientists have discovered a genetic link between the Huns who ravaged Europe in the latter years of the Western Roman Empire and the Xiongnu confederacy that lived on the Mongolian steppe before ...

Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 composite armour scales unearthed from the tomb of Liu He – the deposed ninth emperor of the Han dynasty ... were found in China’s eastern ...