The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany ... warring kingdoms and took the name of Qin Shi Huang Di—the First Emperor of Qin.

Qin Shi Huang had work on his enormous mausoleum started early in his reign. The terracotta warriors of the “underground army” guarding the mausoleum, unearthed in 1974, amazed the world.

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 ...

Toxic liquid mercury rivers, built as a miniature map of the emperor's kingdom, are just one of the many potential risks to opening this inner-most sanctum of the emperor Qin Shi Huangdi's tomb.

Qin Shi Huangdi remains a controversial figure in ... the now famous city-sized mausoleum guarded by a life-sized Terracotta Army, and a massive national road system, all at the expense of many ...

In 1974, farmers in Shaanxi, China, uncovered the terracotta army guarding Qin Shi Huang’s tomb—a burial site of China’s first emperor, hidden for 2,200 years. Though archaeologists have ...

Archaeologists are too scared to open up the 2,200-year-old tomb of China's first emperor Qin Shi Huang because they fear it might harbor deadly booby traps. The mausoleum of the emperor ...

The tomb did not belong to Emperor Qin Shi Huang, and scientists are currently analysing it to determine to whom it belonged. [6] The six-sheep chariot is not the first rare artefact discovered in ...

The first emperor to unify China under a single dynasty, Qin Shi Huang Di packed a lot into his earthly ... With less than one percent of the vast tomb complex excavated so far, it may take ...

Qin Shi Huang had work on his enormous mausoleum started early in his reign. The terracotta warriors of the "underground army" guarding the mausoleum, unearthed in 1974, amazed the world.