Emperor Qin Shi Huang — of terracotta warrior fame — lived from approximately 259 to 210 B.C. Known for unifying China, building The Great Wall, and giving himself the title of Huangdi “ Sovereign ...

Qin Shi Huangdi, the first Qin Emperor, was a brutal ruler who unified ancient China and laid the foundation for the Great Wall. Qin Shi Huangdi forged an empire and left a larger-than-life legacy ...

Young Emperor. Ying Zheng took the throne in 246 B.C. at the age of 13. By 221 B.C. he had unified a collection of warring kingdoms and took the name of Qin Shi Huang Di—the First Emperor of Qin.

But naturally, there's also rumors of a curse on the tomb, and certainly the seven local villagers who unearthed the first of Qin Shi Huangdi's nearly 8,000 buried clay warriors in 1974 paid a ...

Qin Shi also asked that a Terracotta army of at least 8,000 clay soldiers be placed in the tomb. The army must also included terracotta horses, along with real chariots and weapons.

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 ...

Tomb of Qin Shi Huang's Ancestor Confirmed Archeologists have confirmed a graveyard found eight years ago in northwest China's Gansu Province contains the first mausoleum of an ancestor of Emperor ...