China’s showcased sixth-generation “White Emperor” (Baidi) space fighter concept, with its claimed hypersonic, near-space, ...

Chinese archaeologists have unearthed the palace of China's first feudal emperor, best known for the terracotta warrior army guarding his tomb. The Chinese state media reports that archaeologists ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family have prayed for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II ...

Buried deep under a hill in central China, surrounded by an underground moat of poisonous mercury, lies an entombed emperor who's been undisturbed for more than two millennia. The tomb holds the ...

China already had a long history by the time its states were unified under its first emperor. Settlements in the Yellow and Yangtze River Valleys had grown into an agricultural civilization.

It is set during the reign of Qin Shi Huang (260-210 BCE), the “first emperor” of the newly united China: Qin ordered the building of the Great Wall and was famously interred with an army of ...

Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty was the first emperor of ancient China and ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C. He's most ...

After defeating the last independent Chinese state, Qi, in 221BCE, Ying became the first emperor of all China, ruling from 221BCE to 210BCE as Qin Shi Huang, having renamed himself after the ...

The first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, wanted to live forever. Newly discovered documents reveal that 2,200 years ago, he even put out an executive order to search for a potion that would give ...

Qin Shihuang, the first emperor of China, may not have discovered an elixir to life but he did achieve his own form of immortality through his teracotta army Public Domain Ying Zheng, who holds ...

Chinese archaeologists have unearthed the palace of China's first feudal emperor, best known for the terracotta warrior army guarding his tomb. The Chinese state media reports that archaeologists ...