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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...