Many notable polymaths lived during the Renaissance period, a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th through to the 17th century and that began in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spre ...
Cai Lun (蔡伦) was born in Guiyang (modern day Leiyang, Hunan) during the Eastern Han Dynasty. After serving as a court eunuch from AD 75, he was given several promotions under the rule of Emperor He ...
Main article: History of paperHemp wrapping paper, China, circa 100 BCE.Paper-making is known to have been traced back to China about 105 CE, when Cai Lun, an official attached to the Imperial court d ...
Much of the beliefs held by Han-era physicians are known to modern historians through such texts as the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon (Huangdi neijing) medical corpus, which was compiled from the 3rd t ...
Further information: Chinese architecture, Chinese city wall, Siheyuan, Chinese pyramids and Economy of the Han dynasty § Construction projects and laborMaterials and construction This Eastern-Han pa ...
Further information: History of the Han dynasty, History of paper, Papyrus and Traditional Chinese bookbindingAn unfolded traditional bamboo scroll book (Chinese: 册) of Sunzi's (fl. 6th century BCE) ...
The Roman historian Florus describes the visit of numerous envoys, including "Seres" (Chinese, or, more probably Central Asians), to the first Roman Emperor Augustus, who reigned between 27 BCE and CE ...
A number of popular accounts in historical Chinese literature have led to the popularity of certain legends regarding the introduction of Buddhism into China. According to the most popular one, Empero ...
The world’s first offshore wells and machine-drilled wells were made in Bibi-Heybat Bay, near Baku, Azerbaijan. In 1873, exploration and development of oil began in some of the largest fields known t ...
The word Caspian is derived from the name of the Caspi (Aramaic: Kspy, Greek: Kaspioi, Persian: ??????), ancient people who lived to the south-west of the sea in Transcaucasia. Strabo wrote that ...
Its three highest mountains are Ismoil Somoni Peak (known from 1932–1962 as Stalin Peak, and from 1962–1998 as Communism Peak), 7,495 m (24,590 ft); Ibn Sina Peak (still unofficially known as Lenin ...
Ban Chao, like his predecessors Huo Qubing and Wei Qing from the Former Han Dynasty before him, was effective at expelling the Xiongnu from the Tarim Basin, and brought the various people of the Weste ...
Further information: Battle of Ikh BayanIn 89 AD, General Dou Xian led a Han expedition against the Northern Xiongnu. The army advanced from Jilu, Manyi, and Guyang in three great columns. In the summ ...
Then-Prince Da was born to then-Crown Prince Liu Zhuang and one of his consorts, Consort Jia, in 57. As Crown Prince Zhuang's favorite, Consort Ma – Consort Jia's aunt (her mother's sister) – had no ...
Emperor Ming was, early in his reign, known for his generosity and affection for his brothers. This, however, apparently caused some of them to engage in behavior that were considered taboo at the tim ...
