The mausoleum of China's first emperor Qinshihuang, near which the world-famous terracotta army was unearthed, would stay underground in peace in the foreseeable future, a leading expert said. "I ...

The mausoleum of China's first emperor Qinshihuang, near which the world-famous terracotta army was unearthed, would stay underground in peace in the foreseeable future, a leading expert said. "I ...

Northwest China's Shaanxi Province has planned to invest 553 million yuan (66.6 million US dollars) in building a historical park at the site of the Mausoleum of Emperor Qinshihuang (259 BC-210 BC ...

Near the unexcavated tomb of Qin Shi Huang—who proclaimed himself first emperor of China in 221 B.C.E.—lay an extraordinary underground treasure: an entire army of life-size terra-cotta ...

Dr. Li Xiuzhen, senior archaeologist at the Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum Site Museum, China, said, “We now have evidence that close contact existed between the First Emperor’s China and ...

At least three Terracotta Warriors, three terracotta horses, and two chariots have been recovered from Pit No. 2 near the world-famous Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor in the Shaanxi Province of ...

Figures from China's Terracotta Army, the greatest archaeological discovery of the 20th century, will be on display for the first time at the Cincinnati Art Museum.

Archaeologists worry that the tomb of China's first emperor contains deadly booby traps. An ancient Chinese historian wrote that the tomb was filled with mercury and crossbows ready to fire.

Apart from the life-size Terracotta Warriors buried in the mausoleum of Qinshihuang, the first emperor to unite China more than 2,000 years ago, bronze aquatic birds also accompanied him into the ...