The figures were unearthed less than a mile to the east of the third-century B.C. resting place of Qin Shi Huangdi, China’s first emperor and one of the most important figures in its history ...

About 8,000 Terracotta Warriors were buried in three pits less than a mile to the northeast of the mausoleum of the First Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi. They include infantryman, archers ...

According to legend, Qin Shi Huangdi ended an age of chaos by unifying ancient China. Calling himself "The Son of the Sky", he aspired to immortality.

But the discovery of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi's clay soldiers — sculpted to serve as his army in the afterlife — proved to be less of a success for the seven men who uncovered the first ...

About 8,000 Terracotta Warriors were buried in three pits less than a mile to the northeast of the mausoleum of the First Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi. They include infantryman, archers ...

The life-sized terracotta soldiers protecting the tomb of the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi (259 BC-210 BC), were accidentally found by well-diggers in 1974. Since the discovery of the First ...

Qin Shi Huangdi likely qualifies as the most ambitious 13-year-old who ever lived. In 247 BCE, when he ascended the throne of Qin, one of the many warring states that competed for territory in ...

These rows of statues served as guardians of what’s believed to be the much larger tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi himself, which remains unearthed. The exhibition encompasses four zones: Before the ...