Explore Xi'an, the incredible ancient city and the ‘birthplace of civilisation,' home to the Terracotta Army and countless ...

multi-ethnic feudal state in Chinese history — the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.). He called himself Qin Shi Huang or "First Emperor of Qin." He standardized the written script, weights and measures ...

culture, art and science and technology of the Qin Dynasty. Excavation of Pit 1 has excited the archaeological world, known as "the Eighth Wonder of the World." To protect, study and exhibit these ...

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 ...

A pattern of xuanwu, a Chinese mythical creature depicted as a snake and a tortoise on an eaves tile from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). The symbolic turquoise inlaid bronze plaques unearthed from ...

A curator from the Houston Museum of Natural Science explains how the terra cotta warriors were discovered and what they reveal about China s Qin dynasty ... Origins of a Cultural Obsession ...

the three bamboo manuscripts record the political thoughts of the early Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-771 BC), offering important historical insights into the pre-Qin era. In 2008 ...

The fourth national cultural relics census has uncovered three ancient sites from the Pre-Qin period (Prior to 221BC) and Han Dynasty (206BC-AD220) at the Xunyang ancient cinnabar site in ...

In September 2024, a giant billboard featuring the eye-catching slogan "Not China's hamburger, but the world's roujiamo" lit up Times Square in New York.