Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, built the huge Terracotta Army to protect him in the afterlife. An elaborate tomb complex in Xi'an, the city-size compound came equipped with everything the ...

This era, called the Warring States period, ended when Qin Shi Huang unified ancient China into an empire and became its first emperor. Around 400 years later, the Han dynasty broke apart ...

Around 2,200 years ago, ancient China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, began connecting many small walls to build the now-famous Great Wall of China. It eventually became over 13,000 miles (20,000 ...

when they had thousands of the clay soldiers to prepare for guarding Qin Shi Huang’s tomb, the first emperor of China in 221 B.C., in his afterlife. And at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana ...

Think about, said Seán O’Harrow, the attention craftsmen put into the famed Terracotta Warriors that they carved a realistic shoe sole on a statue of a kneeling archer, when they had thousands of the ...

Upon entering the exhibition hall of the Bowers and laying eyes on the Terracotta Warriors and other relics, part of the burial complex for China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, visitors paused to ...

As Qin Shi Huang (259-210 BCE) crafted the first Chinese imperial dynasty, he had a little help from the long-gone-but-rather-immortal Confucius (who lived in the 5th and 6th centuries BCE).