In 221 BCE, King Ying Zheng of Qin conquered the rival warring states and established the Qin empire as Qin Shi Huangdi (The ...

Workers digging a well outside the city of Xi'an, China, in 1974 struck upon one of the greatest archaeological ... and took the name of Qin Shi Huang Di—the First Emperor of Qin.

Archaeologists think that the tomb may be an entire replica of the Chinese city of Xi'an built to honor the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, who died in 210 B.C. Kristina Killgrove is a ...