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 ...

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 ...

Officials in conservative communities in the United States have been removing books from schools and libraries, to the outrage and dismay of liberal-minded Americans. This process has reportedly ...

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 ...

In 1974, farmers in Shaanxi, China, uncovered the terracotta ... to offer a feasible solution. For now, Qin Shi Huang’s tomb remains sealed, an ancient mystery protected by time, superstition ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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