Five of the Terracotta Warriors are on loan to the Bowers, where they will be displayed to the public starting Saturday, May ...

when they had thousands of the clay soldiers to prepare for guarding Qin Shi Huang’s tomb, the first emperor of China in 221 B.C., in his afterlife. And at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

Sima wasn't afraid to make harsh judgments. This is what he said about the young Qin Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of a unified China who ruled from 246 BCE to 210 BCE: "With his puffed-out chest ...