According to Chinese historian Sima Qian, the tomb, which is roughly the size of a football pitch, is riddled with booby ...

Writings by Chinese historian Sima Qian 100 years after ... crossbows and arrows primed to shoot at anyone who enters the ...

Ancient Chinese historian Sima Qian wrote an account ... crossbows and arrows primed to shoot at anyone who enters the tomb. Mercury was used to simulate the hundred rivers, the Yangtze and ...

The richly colored murals at the Kitora Tomb in Asuka, Nara Prefecture, have been confirmed to include the Chinese zodiac animals ... determined the presence of mercury and copper on the wall ...

Workers digging a well outside the city of Xi'an, China, in 1974 struck upon one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in the world: a life-size clay soldier poised for battle. The diggers ...