Workers digging a well outside the city of Xi'an, China, in 1974 struck upon one ... of warring kingdoms and took the name of Qin Shi Huang Di—the First Emperor of Qin. During his rule, Qin ...

Netflix viewers can't get enough of the necropolis of China's first emperor — though ... this inner-most sanctum of the ...

Have you ever wondered why China is called China? Then read on! In 259BCE, Ying Zheng was born to a prince of the state of Qin in northwestern China, but legend says that the boy was in fact the ...

Qin Shi Huang (Kim Seung-ho), who unified China with an army of 500,000, takes Yong-nyeo (Kim Ji-mi), the daughter of a tribal chief, as a concubine on his way back to Hanyang; after spending a ...

He became the first emperor of a unified China in 221 BCE. He ruled until his death in 210 BCE at the age of 50. Qin Shi Huangdi remains a controversial figure in Chinese history. After unifying ...

The Qin Empire had been established in 221 BCE when King Ying Zheng of Qin conquered the rival Warring States and proclaimed himself an emperor under the title Qin Shi Huangdi—the First Qin Emperor.