Spend 24 hours with the ancient Chinese.

The year isAD 17. The Han dynasty is in power and we are in and around Changan, the capital and one of the most developed regions of the empire, whichis enjoying aprolonged economic and cultural pinnacle.

There areextraordinary palaces, military bases and city walls. Households are benefitting from theinvention of numerous agricultural technologies and anunprecedented level of craft production, which includes ceramics, bronzes, iron objects and many other elaborate goods.

This is an age that is both vibrant and innovative but also riven with conflict and contradictions. For as successful as the empire is, the reality is that life for the ordinary inhabitants is still about the same problems: earning money, work struggles and family dramas.

Discover whatone day in ancient China is like by spending twenty-four hours with the people who lived there. Every hour we meet a different person fromdancers todoctors,priests toconvicts,textile workers totomb looters and build amulti-layered picture of the social fabric of ancient China and thisfascinating period in history.