"Dismemberment was considered in Han culture the most humiliating way to die. Execution by dismemberment was the most shameful form of execution. It was done by enemies so that th ...

A team of researchers analyzing a 2,100-year-old burial pit in Mongolia has uncovered new details about the fate of Han soldiers stationed on the empire’s frontier. The study based on genetic, ...

The study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, indicates that some soldiers were executed rather than dying in battle, with evidence of decapitations, amputations, and deep sword ...

“Judging by the poses of these people, they were kneeling ... Chinese themselves dismembered their comrades.” Indeed, the researchers saw signs that the Han tried to care for their fallen men. They ...

I look out the window of the taxi and I see a great beast, more human than hound or cat, awful and unexpected to my reality-tempered eye, and it is mounting another one on the side of the road, a ...

That is when brave soldiers from many countries stormed the beaches of France to fight against the Axis Powers during World War II. It was a huge turning point in the war, and Lam, a Chinese ...

The Panama Canal's strategic importance has largely flown under the public radar. Handling 5% of global trade and serving as ...

Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn and Jay Ellis are featured in “Freaky Tales,” a set of four interconnected stories set in ...

When his company was ordered to take a hill during the Korean War's Operation Ripper, Sfc. Nelson Brittin led the way.

As winter conditions set in, nearly a half-million Chinese soldiers swarmed across the mountains as U.S. air power was politically restricted from crossing the Chinese border to destroy rear area ...

He had a dressing room next to Xi and back-to-back speeches with the Chinese leader. But Xi swept past with enough people to create a "wall" between them — and the talk never happened.