High on the windswept Tibetan Plateau, at an altitude of more than 14,000 feet (4.27 km), a stone inscription has sparked a ...

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.

After Qin Shi Huang’s death, his eldest son, Fusu, was expected to take the throne. But due to acts of deception by certain members of the dynasty, Huhai, Qin’s 18th son, ascended to power ...

BEIJING: A stone carving that some scholars believe dates back more than 2,200 years and could carry major cultural ...

China's First Emperor, Qin was buried with thousands of terra-cotta warriors. ... The last missing tomb from this wealthy Egyptian dynasty has been found. HISTORY & CULTURE.

The precise origin of kombucha is slightly hazy, but the first recipes are thought to date back as far as 221 BCE, the start of China’s Qin Dynasty. (Hence the 2/21 date for World Kombucha Day.) ...

Construction on the Great Wall began in the third-century BCE under Qin Shi Huang (Shihuangdi), the first emperor of a unified China, the History Channel reports. Prior to the Qin dynasty, a ...

The exhibition’s artifacts belong to two Zhou Dynasty kingdoms that were “lost” to the Qin: southern China’s Zeng and Chu cultures, which flourished from about 1040 to 400 B.C.E. and 1030 ...