Workers digging a well outside the city of Xi'an, China, in 1974 struck upon one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in the world: a life-size ... the name of Qin Shi Huang Di—the First ...

Qin Shi Huang had work on his enormous mausoleum started ... amazed the world. The 8,000 vivid, life-size pottery figures, horses and chariots have been called the “eighth wonder of the world.” ...

China's young emperor, Qin Shi Huang, faced a serious threat to his reign in 238 BC. At the heart of it was his mother, Queen Zhao, and her ambitious lover, Lao Ai. The Corning Museum of Glass The ...

220 B.C., under Qin Shi Huang, sections of earlier fortifications were joined ... The Outstanding Universal Value of the Great Wall and all its attributes must be protected as a whole, so as to ...

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

He was called Qin Shi Huang or "First Emperor of Qin ... amazed the world. The 8,000 vivid, life-sized pottery figures, horses and chariots have been called the "Eighth Wonder of the World." ...