When they were unearthed in 1974 in Xi'an, the terracotta warriors of the "underground army" of some 8,000 vivid, life-sized pottery figures, horses and chariots guarding the mausoleum at the Qin ...

According to writings of court historian Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the ... and acrobats full of life and caught in mid-performance, a sharp contrast to the military ...

multi-ethnic feudal state in Chinese history—the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.). He called himself Qin Shi Huang or “First Emperor of Qin.” He standardized the written script, weights and ...

By 221 BCE, the final kingdom fell, and Zheng proclaimed himself Qin Shi Huangdi or "First Sovereign Emperor of the Qin Dynasty ... finding an elixir of eternal life. He travelled far and ...

The sacrificial practices at the Xiazhan ruins site were established in the fourth year of Duke Xuan of Qin's reign and continued until their abolition in the late Western Han Dynasty, spanning ...

The element also had an association with Qin Shi Huang's life. He allegedly became obsessed ... Neolithic basket-motif ceramic sherds and Qin Dynasty rope-motif roofing tiles.

General Manager of sales for BYD’s Dynasty series wrote in a separate post on Weibo (via CnEVPost) that the new midsize EV is aimed at younger buyers. BYD said the new Qin L EV “is coming soon ...

Zhao Gao, a high-ranking official of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.), gifted the emperor with a deer, insisting it was a horse. Laughing, the amused emperor asked his entourage what they thought.