On what was supposed to be a day like any other for farmers digging a well near the city of Xian, China in 1974, quickly turned extraordinary, when the terracotta head of an ancient Chinese warrior ...

Throughout Chinese history, the dragon has also been associated with imperial power, going back to the first emperor of unified China, Qin Shi Huangdi (r. 221-210 B.C.).

This is what he said about the young Qin Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of a unified China who ruled from 246 BCE to 210 BCE: "With his puffed-out chest like a hawk and voice of a jackal, Qin is a ...

By 221 BCE, the final kingdom fell, and Zheng proclaimed himself Qin Shi Huangdi or "First Sovereign Emperor of the Qin Dynasty". He called the united empire "Qin", which many academics believe is ...

The DPP has been intensifying efforts to crack down on cross-Strait exchanges. In April, Chang Li-chi, a Taiwan teacher at ...

Also known as Xuanyuan Shi, Huangdi is widely regarded as the primogenitor of the Chinese nation, together with Emperor Yan. All Chinese thereafter have proclaimed themselves yanhuang zisun －the ...

A grand ceremony paying homage to Huangdi, also known as the Yellow Emperor, will be held in Xinzheng, Central China's Henan province, on April 11, announced the organizing committee at a press ...

While the central burial mound of Emperor Qin Shi Huang remains sealed, the surrounding discoveries continue to redefine what ...

Heaven is a well-laid garden. Or at least, the Ancient Persians thought so. PREMIUM A 17th-century tile panel from Isfahan, Iran, representing the Persian chahar-bagh. (Grant Anderson) ...

A Terracotta Warrior which guarded the tomb of China’s First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, on loan from China is displayed in The World Museum, Liverpool, Britain February 6, 2017. A researcher at the ...