Tombs of emperors in the Han Dynasty were marked by earth mounds packed into square shapes with level tops. Tombs from that time are called fangshang for their square shapes. The mausoleum ...

during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24): Minister ... if I could become like the Yellow Emperor, I would leave my wife and children without hesitation.' "In the winter of the next year ...

a king of the Western Han dynasty, and his wife, Dou Wan. They both died in the second century B.C.E. The soldiers had been clearing space for the construction of an air-raid shelter as part of a ...