By 221 BCE, the final kingdom fell, and Zheng proclaimed himself Qin Shi Huangdi or "First Sovereign Emperor of the Qin Dynasty". He called the united empire "Qin", which many academics believe is ...

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

Toxic liquid mercury rivers, built as a miniature map of the emperor's kingdom, are just one of the many potential risks to ...

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. During his rule, Qin standardized coins, weights, and measures ...

He was called Qin Shi Huang or "First Emperor of Qin." He standardized the written script, weights and measures, and currency, and established the system of prefectures and counties. The ...

There was scant historical record of the massive burial site of Qin Shi Huang—the first emperor of China, who ruled from 221 B.C. to 207 B.C. The site, named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987 ...

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

Qin Shi Huang had work on his enormous mausoleum started early in his reign. The terracotta warriors of the “underground army” guarding the mausoleum, unearthed in 1974, amazed the world.