High on the windswept Tibetan Plateau, at an altitude of more than 14,000 feet (4.27 km), a stone inscription has sparked a ...

As the museum writes, these groups were “significant power players” before the rise of the Qin dynasty, “which ruthlessly suppressed the history and culture of subjugated states, burying ...

The Qin dynasty outlived Qin Shi Huang by only four ... Throughout recorded Chinese history, the first emperor’s Epang Palace—located on the Wei River, south of ancient Xianyang—was ...

Top Filipino-born couturier and Hollywood fashion star Alexis Monsanto shines anew in his latest showcase, where some of his ...

In 221BC, the Qin dynasty unified China ... the Chinese nation splintered and reunified multiple times during its history; dynasties rose and fell by the dozens. What the Qin did that was so ...

According to writings of court historian Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the ... and acrobats full of life and caught in mid-performance, a sharp contrast to the military ...

It turns out they had discovered the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor ... Pictures from History//Getty Images Sima Qian (司馬遷), Prefect of the Grand Scribes of the Han Dynasty, wrote ...

Sheep-drawn chariots are said to have been ridden by Emperor Wu, or Sima Yan, of the Western Jin Dynasty ... chariots in history. However, this discovery in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang ...

Decades of archaeological research across Shaanxi has shed new light on the cultures that preceded the Qin dynasty. “The exhibition presents the many new archaeological finds in Shaanxi ...