The mausoleum of Emperor Qinshihuang (the first Emperor of Qin) is five kilometers east of Lintong County, 35 kilometers from Xi'an City in Shaanxi Province. On its south is Lishan Mountain and to ...

The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany ... of warring kingdoms and took the name of Qin Shi Huang Di—the First Emperor of Qin.

Li said. As archaeologists continue their work, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang remains a glimpse into the complexity of China’s ancient past and of the emperor’s vision for immortality.

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

"Based on its location, we believe this figure was likely the highest-ranking military commander of this unit." ...

The Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses and the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum were fairly recently combined into the larger Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum, which also includes ...

The 2,000-year-old military general figurine is the tenth of its kind to be excavated from the emperor Qin Shi Huang’s tomb, which may hold up to 8,000 clay statues Sonja Anderson Daily ...

Considering the army’s purpose, archaeologists and historians take the Shih Chi for its word, insisting the statues were intended to decorate and watch over the Qin Shi Huang’s tomb for all ...

The tomb did not belong to Emperor Qin Shi Huang, and scientists are currently analysing it to determine to whom it belonged. [6] The six-sheep chariot is not the first rare artefact discovered in ...

The breakthrough came in Pit Two of the sprawling mausoleum in Shaanxi province ... believed to have been created to protect Emperor Qin Shi Huang in the afterlife. The Terracotta Army, a UNESCO ...

Qin Shi Huang ruled between 221 and 210 B.C.E., and he was the first leader to unite China under one empire. At more than 20 square miles, his tomb in China’s Shaanxi province contains an ...

Archaeologists excavating China's renowned Terracotta Army unearthed a rare life-sized statue of a senior general, the first of its kind to be discovered at the site. The figure was discovered in ...