Qin Shi Huangdi, the first Qin Emperor, was a brutal ruler who unified ancient China and laid the foundation for the Great Wall. By Kristin Baird Rattini June 3, 2019 ...

Thousands of life-size terra-cotta soldiers stand in Pit 1, the largest repository of figurines at the third-century B.C. funerary complex of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi, near Xi’an, China.

The life-sized terracotta soldiers protecting the tomb of the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi (259 BC-210 BC), were accidentally found by well-diggers in 1974. Since the discovery of the First ...

The life of 'China's First Emperor,' Qin Shi Huangdi, is re-created in a fascinating History Channel docudrama, Great Wall and all. The terra-cotta warrior - Los Angeles Times ...

Qin Shi Huang wanted to have soldiers in the afterworld to protect him, and maybe allow him to conquer heaven as he had in China. Qin Shi also asked that a Terracotta army of at least 8,000 clay ...

Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum holds an estimated 8,000 terra-cotta soldiers. Danny Lehman via Getty Images. In March 1974, a group of peasants digging a well in China’s drought-parched Shaanxi ...

From the Great Wall of China to the Terracotta Army, Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, has left behind enough awe-inspiring legacies to fill volumes of history. A man obsessed with power ...

As the country's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang unified China with an army of more than 500,000 men. To construct the Terracotta Army and mausoleum, researchers believe it took 700,000 laborers a ...

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 ...