Thus began the short but influential Qin Dynasty ... Ever wonder why Chinese art brims with phoenixes, tigers and snake-like dragons? Where do the styles we think of today as distinctly Chinese ...

"Shutongwen," or "Writing the Same Script," was a policy implemented during the Qin Dynasty for unifying the different writing styles used throughout China at the time. All three ruins are ...

The exhibit, which will be on display through July 16, is in three sections: one on Qin Dynasty art that was excavated from the mausoleum of the first Qin emperor (which also unearthed the famed ...

The exhibit, which will be on display from April 3 to July 16, comprises three sections — one on Qin Dynasty art that was excavated from the mausoleum of the Qin Shi Huang (first Qin emperor ...

Relatively recent discoveries of artifacts from the Zhou dynasty, an ancient state that predates the Qin dynasty ... southern style that would influence centuries of Chinese art and religion.

The Chinese Qin ... written by the Han dynasty chronicler Sima Qian, who described “palaces and scenic towers for a hundred officials,” filled to the brim with art and artifacts.

The bronze chariot drawn by four horses was unearthed in 1980 near the mausoleum of Emperor Qinshihuang of the Qin Dynasty (221 B.C ... and the ancient art of sculpture and colored drawing.

Zhao Gao could not maintain order, and the country descended into civil war. The Qin dynasty outlived Qin Shi Huang by only four years. The second emperor died by suicide; Zhao Gao eventually was ...