For more than 2,200 years, the tomb of Qin Shi Huang has lain untouched under a huge earthen mound in Shaanxi Province.

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 terracotta soldiers near Xi’an are famous because archaeologists can see and study them. The burial chamber they were created to guard is different: the central mound over China’s first emperor ...

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This documentary marks the 50th anniversary of one of the world’s biggest archaeological finds: 8,000 life-sized, intricately designed terracotta warrior figures, concealed beneath mammoth mounds of ...

Secondly, Ying Zheng, who had become Qin Shi Huang, rescinded aristocratic titles, and adopted the political system of centralized authority. He established the Cabinet at the central government level ...

Qin Shi Huang (Kim Seung-ho), who unified China with an army of 500,000, takes Yong-nyeo (Kim Ji-mi), the daughter of a tribal chief, as a concubine on his way back to Hanyang; after spending a night ...

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