He mobilized more than 300,000 people over a period of a dozen years to build the Great Wall, which stretches for 5,000 km in northern China. Qin Shi Huang had work on his enormous mausoleum ...

Archaeologists are terrified to open the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor who has been buried for 2,200 years.

His tomb in China's Shaanxi Province takes up more ... While the findings offer new insights into the hierarchy of Qin Shi ...

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

The first emperor to unify China under a single dynasty, Qin Shi Huang Di packed a lot into his ... the modern techniques for preserving ancient colors seem to be working. In a narrow trench ...

For now, Qin Shi Huang’s tomb remains sealed, an ancient mystery protected by time, superstition, and toxic defenses—its secrets undisturbed for over two millennia. 'China unlocks Moon’s ...

220 B.C., under Qin Shi Huang, sections of earlier fortifications were joined ... and exchanges between agricultural civilizations and nomadic civilizations in ancient China. It provides significant ...

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 ...

[Photo/Xinhua] Xinjiang was known as Xiyu, or the Western Regions, in ancient China ... After unifying China in 221 BC, the first Chinese emperor, Qin Shi Huang, implemented a system of counties ...

He mobilized more than 300,000 people over a period of a dozen years to build the Great Wall, which stretches for 5,000 km across northern China. Qin Shi Huang had the work on his enormous ...