The tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor who reigned from 221 BC to 210 BC, has remained untouched for more than ...

The terra-cotta army, as it is known ... he had unified a collection of warring kingdoms and took the name of Qin Shi Huang Di—the First Emperor of Qin. During his rule, Qin standardized ...

Many people know about the army of life-sized terracotta statues buried with Chinese first emperor Qin Shi Huang in the city of Xi’an. Discovered in 1974 and holding more than 8,000 clay ...

The terracotta warriors weigh up to 600 pounds. Due to their age and significance, they must be handled with the utmost finesse.

Qin (d. 210 B.C.), the first unifier of China, is buried, surrounded by the famous terracotta warriors, at the centre of a complex designed to mirror the urban plan of the capital, Xianyan. The small ...

Qin Shi Huang had the work on his enormous mausoleum started early in his reign. The terracotta warriors and horses of the "underground army" guarding the mausoleum, unearthed in 1974, amazed the ...

(Web Desk) - Archaeologists are terrified to open the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor who has been buried for 2,200 years. The tomb of Qin Shu Huang, who ruled from 221 BC to 210 BC, is ...

is piecing together the 2,200-year-old mystery of the terra-cotta army, part of the celebrated (and still dimly understood) burial complex of China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang Di. It usually ...

China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, is buried in the Shaanxi Province. You might not know his name, but there’s a particular thing about all of this that you’ll probably, if not definitely know - ...

Chinese researchers have reconstructed the faces of a young man and woman who could be one of the many sons and consorts of Qin Shi Huang ... home to the famed terracotta army.

In 230 BC, the armies of the powerful Qin Shi Huang looked set to conquer all before them. But one neighboring kingdom, Yan, had other ideas and hatched a devious plan to assassinate him.

Qin Shi Huang had work on his enormous mausoleum started early in his reign. The terracotta warriors of the “underground army” guarding the mausoleum, unearthed in 1974, amazed the world.