Local farmers discovered thousands of terracotta warrior statues in Shaanxi, China, in 1974. How much do you know about these ...

A momentous discovery was made by a group of farmers in the Shaanxi province, China, on 29 March 1974. Yang Zhifa, his five ...

The diggers notified Chinese authorities ... he had unified a collection of warring kingdoms and took the name of Qin Shi Huang Di—the First Emperor of Qin. During his rule, Qin standardized ...

The first emperor to unify China under a single dynasty, Qin Shi ... a warrior’s head and was summarily executed—a head for a head, as it were. In the long hiatus that followed, Chinese ...

Qin Shi Huang had work on his enormous mausoleum started early in his reign. The terracotta warriors of the “underground army” guarding the mausoleum, unearthed in 1974, amazed the world.

He used his strong military force to annex other six states in the east and founded the first united and centralized state in Chinese history ... towering behind, Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum ...