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 in northern China. Qin Shi Huang had work on his enormous mausoleum ...

Because of his tyranny and excessive tax collections the Qin Dynasty ended soon after his death. Portrait of Emperor Qinshihuang As the first huge ancient mausoleum in China, with a river in front ...

Workers digging a well outside the city of Xi'an, China, in 1974 struck upon one ... historian Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the mausoleum's construction shortly after ...

The tomb was an underground palace complex made of clay, wood and bronze, with a model of the heavens on its ceiling and a map ... China fell into disarray. Within three years, the Qin Dynasty ...