University students occupied this symbolically important site in the spring of 1989. Their calls for freedoms divided the ...

He read the Selected Works of Mao Zedong, famous quotes from Mao ... the high-walled elite compound in central Beijing to the mausoleum of Chairman Mao in Tiananmen Square. There he joined ...

Around 10 B.C., according to Netzer, Herod oversaw the construction of his mausoleum. Upon its completion, he undertook the final stage of his self-commemoration by literally increasing the ...

Saad Zaghloul is not the only occupant of this historic mausoleum. His wife, Safiya Zaghloul is buried there as well. An essential figure in the Revolution of 1919, Safiya was a political activist ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

In May of 1966, amid waning power and influence, Chairman Mao Zedong warned that "counter-revolutionary revisionists" were infiltrating China's Communist Party in a bid to "turn the dictatorship of ...

Similarly, Mao Zedong’s regime systematically eradicated artistic expressions deemed contrary to Communist ideology. In each of these cases, cultural suppression was used as a tool to uplift ...

FORSYTH, Ga. (WPGA) -The Georgia Bureau of Investigation unveiled a new mausoleum to give hundreds of unidentified people a proper resting place. The state has hundreds of bodies in its custody ...

Inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, insurgents have over the decades launched attacks on government forces in an attempt to overthrow the state and, they say, usher in a classless ...