An expert based in the US believes a stone-carving technique used on a recently-discovered Chinese inscription proves its authenticity.

Chinese researchers have reconstructed the faces of a young man and woman who could be one of the many sons and consorts of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China – and who may also have been ...

It consists of over 8,000 life-sized soldiers created 2,000 years ago in an elaborate city-sized compound to guard the tomb of Qin Shi Huang - China's first emperor.

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 ...