Qin Shi Huang was buried with his Terracotta Army (Getty ... Some of the Terracotta Army statues began to deteriorate when ...

Qin Shi Huang had work on his enormous mausoleum started early in his reign. The terracotta warriors of the “underground army” guarding the mausoleum, unearthed in 1974, amazed the world.

The statues were built by the Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang, who died in 210 BCE, and who believed they would protect him in the afterlife. They were discovered in China's Xi'an city in 1974 by a ...

By 221 B.C. he had unified a collection of warring kingdoms and took the name of Qin Shi Huang Di—the First Emperor of Qin. During his rule, Qin standardized coins, weights, and measures ...

No doubt thousands of statues still remain to be unearthed at this archaeological ... constituyen un testimonio histórico de valor incalculable. Het mausoleum van Qin Shi Huang is het grootste ...

Archaeologists are terrified to open the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor who has been buried for 2,200 years.

He was called Qin Shi Huang or "First Emperor of Qin." He standardized the written script, weights and measures, and currency, and established the system of prefectures and counties. The ...