In A.D. 200, Guan was captured by Cao Cao, a military general who would go on to control a vast amount of territory in northern China. His lands would eventually form the Kingdom of Wei.

The phrase is "Shuo Cao Cao, Cao Cao jiu dao!" and it refers to the great general Cao Cao (also written as Tsao Tsao), a major, and controversial, character in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms." ...

China's national television started to live broadcast an excavation on the Mausoleum of General Cao Cao, a legendary Chinese warlord during the Three Kingdoms period (208-280 A.D.), Saturday ...

The tomb of Cao Cao (AD 155-220) about 2,000 years ago was unearthed in Xigaoxue village, Anyang City of central China's Henan Province, according to an announcement Dec. 27 by the Cultural Relic ...

Chinese archaeologists have unearthed a large third-century tomb which they say could be that of Cao Cao, the politician and general infamous in East Asia for his Machiavellian tactics. 27 ...

Sega just released a trailer for the upcoming “Total War: Three Kingdoms,” the latest addition to the PC war strategy series. In it, strategic mastermind general Cao Cao walks us through what ...

This photo taken on December 30, 2009 shows two stone plates excavated from the tomb of Cao Cao, a warlord during the Three Kingdoms period (208-280 A.D.), in Anyang of central China's Henan province.

Although Cao Cao's tomb was raided several times before archaeologists started to excavate it in December 2008, there are more than 250 items, made of gold, silver, copper, iron, stone and jade ...