A team of archaeologists in China has uncovered a 2,246-year-old stone inscription on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The archaeological discovery sheds light on a previously unknown chapter of Chinese ...

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 ...

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 ...

The last of these serendipitous discoveries is the subject of “Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors,” a consistently fascinating exploration of explorations being made at the Emperor Qin Shi ...

The Terracotta Army, discovered in 1974 by local farmers, was created around 210 BCE to accompany China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, in the afterlife.

Qin Shi Huang’s Terracotta Army is thought to have been erected between 247 and 208 B.C.E., more than 2,200 years in the past.

Qin Shi Huang ruled between 221 and 210 B.C.E., and he was the first leader to unite China under one empire.

The rest of the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is enormous, covering around 10 square miles, and is also home to the famous Terracotta Army. These life-sized soldier-like statues number over 8,000 and ...