Archaeologists have unearthed a treasure-filled tomb guarded by the Terracotta Army that may belong to the son of the first ...

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.

The emperor’s youngest son, the teenage Huhai, was instead installed as Qin Er Shi (The Second Qin Emperor). The young Second Emperor lacked his father’s authority and was controlled by Zhao Gao.

There’s a number of terrifying reasons why scientist are too scared to open up a particular tomb. China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, is buried in the Shaanxi Province. You might not know his name, ...

By 221 B.C. 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 coins, weights, and measures ...

No doubt thousands of statues still remain to be unearthed at this archaeological site, which was not discovered until 1974. Qin (d. 210 B.C.), the first unifier of China, is buried, surrounded by the ...

Estos personajes, todos ellos diferentes, y sus caballos, carros de combate y armas, son obras maestras del realismo y constituyen un testimonio histórico de valor incalculable. Het mausoleum van Qin ...

In 259BCE, Ying Zheng was born to a prince of the state of Qin in northwestern China, but legend says that the boy was in fact the son of an ambitious ... himself Qin Shi Huangdi or "First ...

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.

He was called Qin Shi Huang or "First Emperor of Qin." He standardized the written script, weights and measures, and currency, and established the system of prefectures and counties. The ...