During his lifetime, Qin Shi Huang became obsessed with achieving immortality and sought the elusive elixir of life.

The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany ... warring kingdoms and took the name of Qin Shi Huang Di—the First Emperor of Qin.

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.

Toxic liquid mercury rivers, built as a miniature map of the emperor's kingdom, are just one of the many potential risks to ...

By 221 BCE, the final kingdom fell, and Zheng proclaimed himself Qin Shi Huangdi or "First Sovereign ... he also ordered the construction of a huge tomb near Xi'an, in Shaanxi province.

Qin Shi Huangdi remains a controversial figure in ... the now famous city-sized mausoleum guarded by a life-sized Terracotta Army, and a massive national road system, all at the expense of many ...

The tomb did not belong to Emperor Qin Shi Huang, and scientists are currently analysing it to determine to whom it belonged. [6] The six-sheep chariot is not the first rare artefact discovered in ...

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.