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

This scene was "Star Wars" fans' introduction to the emperor, who ranked No. 13 on USA TODAY's list of the series' 75 greatest characters. But the emperor did not appear in the flesh until the ...

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. What else do you know about ...

farmers in China's Shaanxi province stumbled upon one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the 20th century—the life-size Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang (259 B.C ...

In 1968, when Rawson joined the British Museum, she was tasked with cataloging probably thousands of ceramics and jades from ...

Chile’s leftist President Gabriel Boric slammed Donald Trump as a pretend emperor on Wednesday, just hours ahead of the US head of state’s expected announcement on trade tariffs.

Either you convert to Islam, or you are beheaded – this was the policy of the most atrocious Mughal emperor ... prepared to prove themselves as the greatest Mughal ruler. Aurangzeb won the ...

Aurangzeb, the sixth Mughal emperor, is a controversial figure in Indian history. His tomb is in Khuldabad, Maharashtra, not in Delhi or Agra. Aurangzeb preferred a simple grave, rejecting the ...