He mobilized more than 300,000 people over a period of a dozen years to build the Great Wall, which stretches for 5,000 km in northern China. Qin Shi Huang had work on his enormous mausoleum ...

Workers digging a well outside the city of Xi'an, China, in 1974 struck upon one ... of warring kingdoms and took the name of Qin Shi Huang Di—the First Emperor of Qin. During his rule, Qin ...

Archaeologists are terrified to open the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor who has been buried for 2,200 years.

China's young emperor, Qin Shi Huang, faced a serious threat to his reign in 238 BC. At the heart of it was his mother, Queen Zhao, and her ambitious lover, Lao Ai. The Corning Museum of Glass The ...

The Great Wall of China started in the Qin dynasty (221–206 BCE). Emperor Qin Shi Huang joined different walls into one big defense. This was the start of a long timeline of great wall ...

[Photo/Xinhua] Xinjiang was known as Xiyu, or the Western Regions, in ancient China ... After unifying China in 221 BC, the first Chinese emperor, Qin Shi Huang, implemented a system of counties ...

He mobilized more than 300,000 people over a period of a dozen years to build the Great Wall, which stretches for 5,000 km across northern China. Qin Shi Huang had the work on his enormous ...