As the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang would have wanted his legacy to be remembered long after his demise, hence the ...

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

In 221 B.C., Ying Zheng, ruler of the State of Qin and a man of great talent and bold vision, ended the 250-odd years of rivalry among the independent principalities during the Warring States ...

China's young emperor, Qin Shi Huang, faced a serious threat to his reign in 238 BC. At the heart of it was his mother, Queen Zhao, and her ambitious lover, Lao Ai. A Final Takeoff The Corning ...

Because he wanted a long life in this ornate palace ... Emperor Qin Sift Huang's Shrine or Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Temple. In the ruins of the city gates and buildings, piles of tiles, brown ...

His tomb in China's Shaanxi Province takes up more than 20 square miles and contains around 8,000 life-size clay statues ... Oxford who worked at the Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum Site Museum.

burial complex of China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang Di. It usually takes Yang and her co-workers many days to transform a heap of clay fragments into a full-size warrior, but today they are ...

The Qin dynasty terracotta warriors from Emperor Qin Shihuang’s tomb are some of the most significant and well-known Chinese relics, and now there’s a chance to see part of the 8,000-strong ...