Centuries-old Chinese artifacts have been damaged after a tourist visiting the Museum of the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang in Shaanxi, China, leapt over a guardrail and into a pit. On ...

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 ...

Some things are best left undisturbed. According to the Chinese government, that includes the remaining 6,000 terracotta soldiers and the rest of Qin Shi Huang's colossal burial site in Xi'an, China.

The 7,000 soldiers buried with Qin Shi Huang in 210 B.C. were made of clay. But the bronze weapons the terra cotta army carried into the enormous tomb complex near Xi’an in western China were ...

More than 200 additional funerary sculptures have been uncovered near the tomb of China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, in Xi’an, the capital of China’s Shaanxi Province. The relics join the ...

Qin Shi Huang (pronounced "chin shuh hwang") was born in 259 B.C., first son to the king of Qin, one of six independent kingdoms inside modern China.