A collection of artifacts has been found in one of the largest and most complex Chu-era burials ever found. This cache is ...

Dating back thousands of years, the Terracotta Army guards the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang and has never been opened.

Workers digging a well outside the city of Xi'an, China, in 1974 struck upon one ... historian Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the mausoleum's construction shortly after ...

Because of his tyranny and excessive tax collections the Qin Dynasty ended soon after his death. Portrait of Emperor Qinshihuang As the first huge ancient mausoleum in China, with a river in front ...

With the introduction of Buddhism into China after the Qin Dynasty, ancient bells gradually became important musical instruments for Buddhism. As the saying goes, "There are bells at every temple.

[Photo provided to China Daily] Researchers ... of the early Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-771 BC), offering important historical insights into the pre-Qin era. In 2008, Tsinghua ...

Like almost every country, especially those spanning vast territories, China went through a unification process that ...

Among the famed terra-cotta warriors in the sprawling tomb of the ancient Chinese ... system in the Qin dynasty,” Li tells Live Science. According to the state broadcaster China Central ...

This trend continued through the Western Han dynasty (206BC – AD24). The Qin was China’s first imperial dynasty, with its capital at Xianyang in what is now the northwestern province of Shaanxi.

The fourth national cultural relics census has uncovered three ancient sites from the Pre-Qin period (Prior to 221BC) and Han ...