The Terracotta Warriors were created to guard the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of a unified China. He ascended the throne of the Qin state at a young age and went on to conquer rival ...

China already had a long history by the time its states were unified under its first emperor. Settlements in the Yellow and Yangtze River Valleys had grown into an agricultural civilization ...

During the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Mao ordered Red Guards posted at this gate. ... going back to the first emperor of unified China, Qin Shi Huangdi (r. 221-210 B.C.).

And the Terracotta Army—approximately 8,000 pottery soldiers created to guard the gravesite of the first emperor of a unified China—was found by farmers digging a well. Mysteries of the ...

A team in China used ancient DNA to reconstruct the face of an emperor who reigned 1,500 years ago. Emperor Wu was the ruler of the Northern Zhou dynasty from 560 to 578 CE.

The ruler in question was Emperor Wu of China's Northern Zhou dynasty, whose reign lasted from A.D. 560 to A.D. 578. The facial reconstruction of Emperor Wu, who was ethnically Xianbei.