A tourist jumped down some 15 feet into the pit containing the terracotta warriors, where he damaged at least two of the ...

In c. 220 B.C., under Qin Shi Huang, sections of earlier fortifications were joined together to form a united defence system against invasions from the north. Construction continued up to the Ming ...

A week long exhibit in London offered by the Shanghai Mint will focus on the connections and culture that united two major ...

Later Chinese rulers continued work on the Great Wall, and it wasn't until the 1300s that the structure was mostly finished. Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty was the first emperor of ...

He mobilized more than 300,000 people over a period of a dozen years to build the Great Wall, which stretches for 5,000 km across northern China. Qin Shi Huang had the work on his enormous ...

This immersive experience spans 1,500 years of Chinese history, tracing the cultural and political developments that led to Emperor Qin Shi Huang ... of China’s Great Wall, an extensive ...

(Did the Great Wall of China work?) An 18th-century painted album leaf depicts events chronicled by second-century B.C. historian Sima Qian, in which Qin Shi Huangdi burned Confucian texts and ...

China is a country of remarkable history, cultural depth, and rapid transformation. Its vast landscapes, centuries-old traditions, and architectural achievements tell the story of one of the world’s ...

The 30-year-old man, identified only by his surname Sun, launched himself over guardrails and a protective netting at the ...