In 2011, archaeologists in China unearthed nine tombs guarded by the famous Terracotta Army, the 8,000 life-size sculptures ...

The ape's skull was discovered inside the tomb of the grandmother ... He ruled until his death in 210 BCE at the age of 50. Qin Shi Huangdi remains a controversial figure in Chinese history.

By 221 B.C. he had unified a collection of warring kingdoms and took the name of Qin Shi Huang Di—the First Emperor ... but the total may never be known. Qin's tomb itself remains unexcavated ...

The mausoleum of the first Qin ... Shi Huang's tomb at Xunyang City, in Ankang, Shaanxi province. For long experts have been trying to understand the reason behind the uncanny composition inside ...

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.