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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered hundreds of ancient Qin and Han tombs in Toksun County, near the city of Turpan in northwest China's Xinjiang autonomous region. The findings are part of the country's ...