A strong gale-force wind has toppled a giant statue of China's first emperor Qin Shi Huang and flattened its face at a popular tourist site in eastern Shandong province. The 62-foot emperor's head ...

Millennia-old artifacts have been damaged after a tourist visiting the Museum of the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang in Shaanxi, China, leapt over a guardrail and into a pit. On May 30 ...

Qin Shi Huang wanted to have soldiers in the afterworld to protect him, and maybe allow him to conquer heaven as he had in China. Qin Shi also asked that a Terracotta army of at least 8,000 clay ...

Qin Shi Huang wanted to have soldiers in the afterworld to protect him, and maybe allow him to conquer heaven as he had in China. Qin Shi also asked that a Terracotta army of at least 8,000 clay ...

Qin Shi Huang was the founder of China's Qin Dynasty and is credited with being the first man to unite much of modern China's heartland through conquest, around 221-206 BC.

There, etched into stone, was a 37-character inscription in the script of the Qin dynasty. What it described was stunning: an imperial mission, dispatched by Qin Shi Huang in 221 BC, to venture ...

Qin Shi Huang was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 246 BC to 221 BC during the Warring States Period. He defeated the other six states and became the First Emperor of a unified China in 221 BC.