According to writings of court historian Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the mausoleum's construction shortly after taking the throne. More than 700,000 laborers worked on ...

This trend continued through the Western Han dynasty (206BC – AD24). The Qin was China’s first imperial dynasty, with its capital at Xianyang in what is now the northwestern province of Shaanxi.

The Chinese Qin Emperor's Terracotta Army is 8,000 soldiers strong and has been referred to as the eighth World Wonder.

The Han Dynasty was famed for its carving skills ... than their life-sized Qin Dynasty counterparts in Xi’an. But many experts have argued that they are far more distinctive.

Thus the general plan of today's Great Wall was laid down during the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC). During the Han Dynasty (206 BC- AD 220) Which followed the Qin, in addition to making improvements in ...

In the mid-9th century, following the decline of the Uighur Khanate, the Uighur people migrated westward and merged with the Han ... dynasty, China was divided into three parts: the Upper Qin ...

The statue, discovered at the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin dynasty, under which China was unified after centuries of political turmoil, is the first of its kind to be ...

Chu Han Zhengxiong is a Chinese television series based on the historical novel of the same Chinese title by Xiong Cheng. The story tells of the events in the late Qin Dynasty and Chu–Han ...

Clay seals unearthed at the Zhangyan site in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province Photo: Courtesy of the Shaanxi Provincial ...