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 ...

Workers digging a well outside the city of Xi'an, China, in 1974 struck upon one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in the world: a life-size clay soldier poised for battle. The diggers ...

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 ...

MMORPG.com's Carolyn Koh had the chance recently to explore the Tomb of the Qin-Shi Emperor, a dungeon that's a part of the game's high level expansion, Legend IV. Silkroad Online is based on the ...