Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty was the first emperor of ancient China and ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C. He's most ...

What did an ancient Chinese emperor from 1,500 years ago look like? A team of researchers reconstructed the face of Chinese Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou using DNA extracted from his remains.

The emperor ordered Chinese writing made uniform ... finished by hand so that no two figures looked exactly alike. The ancient army was stationed just east of a necropolis surrounding the tomb ...

A mentally ill tourist in Xi’an damaged two of China’s iconic terracotta warriors after jumping into a protected excavation ...

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While ancient Chinese texts during the Sui Dynasty (581–618) did use a term resembling "empire," it referred to a country ruled by an emperor. However, this is not equivalent to the modern ...

Emperor Wu was credited with unifying northern China in a particularly chaotic time. Researchers recovered ancient DNA from his remains, which included a nearly intact skull. After analyzing the ...

(CNN) — Ancient DNA recovered from the remains of a sixth century Chinese emperor who ruled during the country’s dark ages has shed some light on what the leader may have looked like. Emperor ...