an archaeologist at the University of Oxford who worked at the Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum Site Museum. "The style and color of the adornments featured the aesthetic taste and social status ...

The Qin dynasty terracotta warriors from Emperor Qin Shihuang’s tomb are some of the most significant and well-known Chinese ...

The diggers notified Chinese authorities, who dispatched government archaeologists to the site. They found ... and took the name of Qin Shi Huang Di—the First Emperor of Qin.

No doubt thousands of statues still remain to be unearthed at this archaeological site, which was not discovered until 1974. Qin (d. 210 B.C.), the first unifier of China, is buried, surrounded by the ...

In 1974, farmers in Shaanxi, China, uncovered the terracotta army guarding Qin Shi Huang’s tomb—a burial site of China’s first emperor, hidden for 2,200 years. Though archaeologists have ...

[4] At the current site, the archaeologists also ... researching ancient Chinese burial practices. The tomb did not belong to Emperor Qin Shi Huang, and scientists are currently analysing it ...

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.

In 221 BC, Ying Zheng, first emperor of the Qin Dynasty ... for 5,000 km across northern China. Qin Shi Huang had the work on his enormous mausoleum started early in his reign.