Archaeologists are terrified to open the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor who has been buried for 2,200 years.

The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor of China into the afterlife ... never be known. Qin's tomb itself remains unexcavated ...

Portrait of Emperor Qinshihuang As the first huge ancient mausoleum in China, with a river in front ... skill and craftsman-ship of the country's tomb construction and has spawn many anecdotes ...

The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is a mound separated into two parts by a main road ... which had resulted in tourism development being given priority over conservation needs. XII.81 The ...

The East Tombs are the largest and most complete complex of imperial tombs in China ... first, second, third and fourth stone doors and rushed into the rear room of the tomb. The coffins of ...

Archaeologists think that the tomb may be an entire replica of the Chinese city of Xi'an built to honor the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, who died in 210 B.C. What else do you know about ...

Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 composite armour scales unearthed from the tomb of Liu He – the deposed ninth emperor of the Han dynasty (206BC - AD220) – in the first ...