In the end, this small band of POWs and deserters, whose strength was seen by Leon Trotsky as the chief threat to Soviet rule, helped destroy the Austro-Hungarian Empire and found Czecho-Slovakia.

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The last one of the ancient period, the Han dynasty, ruled around the same time as the ancient Roman Empire. Today, archaeologists study ancient Chinese artifacts to find clues about the ...

"People during the Han Dynasty would serve the dead as one served the living," said Bai Yunxiang, a veteran archaeologist with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. "The tomb had a monumental ...

One of the main elements used in the study are funerary models from the Han dynasty (202 BCE – 220 CE). In tombs from that era, it was common to include model granaries made of ceramic that held real ...

"The Dabaotai Tomb, excavated in 1974, is renowned for its imperial burial system and holds significant value for the study of the Han Dynasty's political, economic, and cultural development ...