The quest for immortality is one of the great conceits that have been forged since the dawn of civilization. The tomb of the Chinese Emperor Qin (Chin) Shihauangdi, who established the first empire ...

The pursuit of immortality was commonplace among the most powerful of people in ancient China - emperors. An archaeologist checks a wooden slip from the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) in Longshan county, ...

In a dual presentation of Chinese art and culture past and present, the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series at the National Gallery of Victoria presents China’s ancient Terracotta Warriors alongside ...

Deadly traps, rivers of mercury, and an emperor obsessed with eternal life — the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, remains one of archaeology’s greatest enigmas. Discovered in 1974, ...

The first emperor of China was consumed by an obsessive quest for immortality. New archaeological findings reveal that Qin Shihuang, who marked the beginning of the Qin dynasty when he took power in ...

A team of archaeologists in China has uncovered a 2,246-year-old stone inscription on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The archaeological discovery sheds light on a previously unknown chapter of Chinese ...

High on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in southwestern China and northeastern India, archaeologists recently discovered a 2,246-year-old stone inscription that might record one of the most mysterious ...

Buried deep under a hill in central China, surrounded by an underground moat of poisonous mercury, lies an entombed emperor who's been undisturbed for more than two millennia. The tomb holds the ...

Buried deep under a hill in central China, surrounded by an underground moat of poisonous mercury, lies an entombed emperor who's been undisturbed for more than two millennia. The tomb holds the ...