While the central burial mound of Emperor Qin Shi Huang remains sealed, the surrounding discoveries continue to redefine what ...

Chinese archaeologists have unearthed the palace of China's first feudal emperor, ... An army of clay warriors guards the tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, who died in 210 BC.

A 13,000-square-meter site at the mausoleum of China’s first feudal emperor, which is predicted by archeologists to be a huge underground arsenal, is now under preliminary excavation.

The site, now part of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and continues to be an active archaeological excavation, with new discoveries still being made.

According to the inscription, five top-ranking officials had been ordered to seek medicinal herbs near Mount Kunlun, a mountain revered as a celestial realm.

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 ...

Qin Shi Huangdi, the first Qin Emperor, was a brutal ruler who unified ancient China and laid the foundation for the Great Wall. By Kristin Baird Rattini. June 3, 2019 ...

Centuries-old Chinese artifacts have been damaged after a tourist visiting the Museum of the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang in Shaanxi, China, leapt over a guardrail and into a pit. On ...

Megaprojects. Discovering the Secrets of Emperor Qin's Mausoleum. Posted: May 23, 2025 | Last updated: May 23, 2025. Discover the massive terracotta army, buried for centuries and revealing the ...

Young Emperor. Ying Zheng took the throne in 246 B.C. at the age of 13. By 221 B.C. he had unified a collection of warring kingdoms and took the name of Qin Shi Huang Di—the First Emperor of Qin.

The Age of Empires is a popular exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. (Frank McGinity photo) In 2012, my wife, Sheila, and I made our first trip to China. One of the trip’s ...