Ying Zheng took the throne in 246 B.C. at the age of 13. By 221 B.C. he had unified a collection of warring kingdoms and took the name of Qin Shi Huang Di—the First Emperor of Qin.

A curator from the Houston Museum of Natural Science explains how the terra cotta warriors were discovered and what they reveal about China s Qin dynasty The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe ...

Discover the lasting legacies of unified China's first emperor Qin Shi Huang which influenced Chinese history for centuries.

It was a dazzling spectacle: a life-size army of painted clay soldiers buried to guard an emperor’s tomb. Now archaeologists and artists, armed with the latest tools and techniques, are bringing that ...

Every year, millions of visitors come to Xi’an in China to visit Emperor Qin’s Mausoleum site, ITV News Asia Correspondent Debi Edward reports The Terracotta Army in Xi’an is incredible in ...

Protecting their emperor in the afterlife are 8,000 clay soldiers known as the Terracotta Army. These soldiers protect the ...

PHILADELPHIA — In 1974, a group of farmers digging a well in a persimmon orchard in central China found pieces of terra-cotta pottery that looked like parts of human figures. They didn’t ...

The life-sized terracotta soldiers protecting the tomb of the first emperor ... Since the discovery of the First Emperor’s tomb complex, about 2,000 of an estimated 8,000 six-foot-tall clay figures ...

In addition to the digital exploration of the Terracotta Warriors, experiencing projects such as "repairing" Terracotta ...

A curator from the Houston Museum of Natural Science explains how the terra cotta warriors were discovered and what they reveal about China s Qin dynasty Astronomers Create First Realistic ...