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

Archaeologists are terrified to open the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor who has been buried for 2,200 years. The tomb of Qin Shu Huang, who ruled from 221 BC to 210 BC, is guarded by a ...

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 ...

A stone carving that some scholars believe dates back more than 2,200 years and could carry major cultural significance has ...

Qin Shi Huangdi, the first Qin Emperor, was a brutal ruler who unified ancient China and laid the foundation for the Great Wall.

Shaanxi is best known as one of the fulcrums of Chinese civilization, from which emerged the first emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi, who left the famed terracotta army as his legacy outside the capital Xi ...

Dan Snow may be 6ft 6in, but he is essentially a schoolboy at heart with an infectious enthusiasm for history, especially when involving horrible smells, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.

But the discovery of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi's clay soldiers — sculpted to serve as his army in the afterlife — proved to be less of a success for the seven men who uncovered the first known ...

The Gist: 2,200 years ago, Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi conquered and unified six adjoining kingdoms to form what we know today as China, started work on what would become the Great Wall, and committed ...

The exhibit’s subtitle, “Last Splendor of China’s Bronze Age,” is further explained by the “obliteration” of the multistate Zhou dynasty in 221 B.C. by the conquering Qin Shi Huangdi ...

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 in Beijing on ...

It would eventually be discovered as one of the greatest archaeological finds of the century, and arguably of the modern era: the ancient tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi, China’s first emperor, guarded by ...