The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor of China into the afterlife ... military poses of the famous terra-cotta soldiers.

In 206 BCE, two powerful Chinese warlords gathered ... where the First Qin Emperor was building his mausoleum, of which the famous Terracotta Warriors are only a small part. The Qin Empire had ...

During his lifetime, Qin Shi Huang became obsessed with achieving immortality and sought the elusive elixir of life.

Wu Zhao - noble, beautiful and well-educated - became the concubine of the elderly Emperor Taizong at the ... recruiting scholars to write biographies of famous women, and giving members of ...