The discovery could solve a tragic mystery from the Qin Dynasty.

Chinese farmers were digging a well in a rural area of Xi'an, China in 1974 when they came across pieces of what appeared to be ceramic armor. No one knew what it was at first. Turns out, the farmers ...

This is the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, who unified the nation in 221 BC and chased immortality until he died in 210 BC. As per BBC, it was discovered near Xi’an in 1974 by farmers ...

An ancient collection of chariots has been uncovered in China, dating back over 2,000 years. The chariots were found near the Chinese city of Xi'an, in one of the tombs of the mausoleum of China's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists worry that the tomb of China's first emperor contains deadly booby traps. An ancient Chinese historian wrote that ...

The Age of Empires is a popular exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. (Frank McGinity photo) In 2012, my wife, Sheila, and I made our first trip to China. One of the trip’s ...

Buried deep under a hill in central China, surrounded by an underground moat of poisonous mercury, lies an entombed emperor who's been undisturbed for more than two millennia. The tomb holds the ...

It took 720,000 workers and nearly 40 years to build the mausoleum. The last workers and their supervisors were buried alive along with the dead emperor, taking the secret of its construction to their ...

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