During his lifetime, Qin Shi Huang became obsessed with achieving immortality and sought the elusive elixir of life.

Discover the massive terracotta army, buried for centuries and revealing the grandeur of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang. Uncover the history, mythology, and mystery of the tomb complex and its ...

Guarding the tomb of China's very first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, they had stood in place since the late 200s BC; making them more than 2,200 years old. Advert Qin Shi Huang is one of the most ...

By 221 BCE, the final kingdom fell, and Zheng proclaimed himself Qin Shi Huangdi or "First Sovereign ... he also ordered the construction of a huge tomb near Xi'an, in Shaanxi province.

The fourth national cultural relics census has uncovered three ancient sites from the Pre-Qin period (Prior ... much as a hundred tons, of mercury could be in the tomb. Mercury has excellent ...

Completely different was the formal concert by Shanghai-based Zi De Guqin Studio, which posed the question: What is Qin? Qin is a generic ... Yu Chenyao (guzheng), Huang Jieying (zhongruan ...

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Radiocarbon dating reveals that the tomb was built around 220 B.C., when Chu was being absorbed into the new Qin state. The tomb at Wuwangdan in eastern China lies a few miles from the ruins of ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet.

President-elect Donald Trump Vice President-elect JD Vance participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on Sunday ...