Nine button-like ornaments made of pure gold that are believed to be from the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC) have recently been unearthed at an ancient tomb in Xianyang, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

Newly found sites of stone armor production are located in the ancient capital of the Qin Dynasty in Xianyang, ... The mausoleum is known for its over 7,000 life-size terracotta statues of ...

Many people know about the army of life-sized terracotta statues buried with Chinese first emperor Qin Shi Huang in the city of Xi’an. Discovered in 1974 and holding more than 8,000 clay ...

The Qin dynasty outlived Qin Shi Huang by only four years. The second emperor died by suicide; Zhao Gao eventually was killed. Various rebel forces coalesced into a new dynasty, the Western Han .

With a height of 76 meters, the mausoleum is laid out in line with the dimensions of Xianyang, the capital of the Qin Dynasty. ... culture, science and arts of the Qin Dynasty, over 2,000 years ago.

As he kept digging, he realized he had discovered an ancient clay statue. Archeologists knew the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi, had an underground mausoleum somewhere in the area. But the ...

The project, which spanned decades, required a workforce of about 700,000 men to build a massive underground necropolis similar to Xianyang, the capital of the Qin Dynasty.

More than 100 life-size terracotta warriors have added to the Terracotta Army of China's Qin Dynasty as archaeologists announced on Monday about the new statues that have been excavated on the ...

Statues in Guizai Valley. [file photo] Archeologists have discovered at least 5,000 stone statues in central China's Hunan Province, dating back to periods before the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BC).