China already had a long history by the time its states were unified under its first emperor. Settlements in the Yellow and Yangtze River Valleys had grown into an agricultural civilization. Between ...

Buried deep under a hill in central China, surrounded by an underground moat of poisonous mercury, lies an entombed emperor who's been undisturbed for more than two millennia. The tomb holds the ...

A 2,000-year-old terra-cotta archer that has been reassembled and transported to the Field Museum from Xi'an, China Credit: Aimee Levitt Qin Shi Huangdi likely qualifies as the most ambitious ...

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 ...

With the British Museum about to exhibit an unprecedented (outside China) collection of terracotta soldiers from Qinshi Huangdi’s tomb, New Statesman Magazine writes about the First Emperor and his ...

New additions to the Terracotta Army have been unearthed in China, adding a drop more to the mystery of how ancient artisans ...

They were buried standing guard. Thousands of years ago, life-size clay warriors were placed to guard the tomb of China's First Emperor Qin Shi Huang Di of the Qin Dynasty. He died in 210 BC and chose ...

A terra-cotta soldier kneels. 1975: Archeologists complete excavation of the necropolis of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of a unified China, and discover 8,000 terra-cotta warriors and their horses ...