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 ...

The uncertainty only deepens the allure. If true, the expedition confirms that Qin Shi Huang’s immortality campaign was even more expansive than previously thought. In the end, his attempts failed.

At age 13 he became king of the province of Qin. By 221 B.C. he had conquered several other provinces and proclaimed himself Qin Shi Huangdi (“the First August Emperor of Qin”).

Qi itself survived until 221 B.C., when Qin Shi Huangdi conquered it, unifying all of China and becoming the country's first emperor. Qin Shi Huangdi then began construction of his own tomb, which ...

The state of Qin, based in the Sichuan plains, eventually won out in 221 B.C. under the leadership of the ruthless King Zheng. The victorious monarch gave himself the title Qin Shi Huangdi (259 ...

The general Credit: Aimee Levitt Of course the central and most important part of the burial site is Qin Shi Huangdi’s tomb, but no one has opened it since it was sealed more than 2,000 years ago.

Qin Shi Huang wished to build an empire that would stand for all eternity. Now his city of the dead has been plundered, his warriors dispersed, his dreams of universal conquest a footnote in the ...

With the British Museum about to exhibit an unprecedented (outside China) collection of terracotta soldiers from Qinshi Huangdi’s tomb, New Statesman Magazine writes about the First Emperor and ...

The life-sized terracotta soldiers protecting the tomb of the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi (259 BC-210 BC), were accidentally found by well-diggers in 1974. Since the discovery of the First ...

MMORPG.com's Carolyn Koh had the chance recently to explore the Tomb of the Qin-Shi Emperor, a dungeon that's a part of the game's high level expansion, Legend IV.

Qin Shihuang News from United Press International.Hollywood actor Brendan Fraser has signed to reprise his role as an American serving in the French Foreign Legion in a second sequel to "The Mummy." ...