According to the inscription, five top-ranking officials had been ordered to seek medicinal herbs near Mount Kunlun, a ...

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

Qin Shi Huang famously sent alchemists east to Japan seeking immortality. Now, a newly discovered inscription suggests he ...

he began construction on a 5000-kilometer wall to safeguard his territory. Later dynasties continued this work and added their own flourishes. While construction began under the Qin dynasty ...

Decades of archaeological research across Shaanxi has shed new light on the cultures that preceded the Qin dynasty ... a complex city that controlled a territory roughly half the size of ...

The discoveries are significant for Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC) historical research. The remains of high-grade ancient architecture, the remains indicate that the region around the Jingcheng Xincun ...

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 ...

two mysterious vassal states of the Zhou dynasty in northwestern China. Little is known of their cultures and histories, which were erased when the territory was conquered by the Qin, the founders ...