Like almost every country, especially those spanning vast territories, China went through a unification process that ...

A collection of artifacts has been found in one of the largest and most complex Chu-era burials ever found. This cache is ...

Dating back thousands of years, the Terracotta Army guards the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang and has never been opened.

In the mythic geography book Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas), many gods hold snakes or hang snakes around their ears, or have a snake’s body, as a mark of their extraordinary abilities, ...

Archaeology has recently made an unprecedented discovery that can catch the attention of millions of people. Researchers have ...

In a ship-themed exhibition hall in Tsim Sha Tsui of Hong Kong cultural relics from the Song Dynasty 960-1279 were shining in the glass cases tell ...

Immediately after his death, China fell into disarray. Within three years, the Qin Dynasty was over. But the emperor's legacy lived on in his construction projects and a strong centralised ...

The fourth national cultural relics census has uncovered three ancient sites from the Pre-Qin period (Prior to 221BC) and Han ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] Researchers ... of the early Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-771 BC), offering important historical insights into the pre-Qin era. In 2008, Tsinghua ...

is known as the first emperor of unified China, having consolidated the warring kingdoms in 221 BCE and founded the Qin dynasty, marking him as the architect of China’s unification ...