The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor of China into the afterlife ... never be known. Qin's tomb itself remains unexcavated ...

Archaeologists are terrified to open the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor who has been buried for 2,200 years. The tomb of Qin Shu Huang, who ruled from 221 BC to 210 BC, is guarded by ...

Local farmers discovered thousands of terracotta warrior statues in Shaanxi, China, in 1974. How much do you know about these ...

Portrait of Emperor Qinshihuang As the first huge ancient mausoleum in China, with a river in front ... skill and craftsman-ship of the country's tomb construction and has spawn many anecdotes ...

Rich and powerful fathers, their sons and younger brothers popularized cockfighting and horseracing, and committed crimes in these tomb ... in China 's history. During the reign of Emperor Wu ...

The world-famous Terracotta Army was constructed to accompany the tomb of China's first emperor as an afterlife guard. The site houses thousands of detailed life-size terracotta soldier models to ...

Albert Lin and National Geographic Channel unearth the terrible secrets that lie hidden in the tomb of China's first Emperor. The Terracotta Warriors are just the tip of the iceberg in this ...

The first emperor to unify China under a single dynasty ... With less than one percent of the vast tomb complex excavated so far, it may take centuries to uncover all that remains hidden.

Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 composite armour scales unearthed from the tomb of Liu He – the deposed ninth emperor of the Han dynasty (206BC - AD220) – in the first ...

Archaeologists think that the tomb may be an entire replica of the Chinese city of Xi'an built to honor the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, who died in 210 B.C. What else do you know about ...