According to writings of court historian Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the ... 1 of 12 Petra, JordanA person standing in the doorway of the Monastery at Petra, Jordan ...

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 the work on his enormous mausoleum ...

The sacrificial practices at the Xiazhan ruins site were established in the fourth year of Duke Xuan of Qin's reign and continued until their abolition in the late Western Han Dynasty, spanning ...

These vivid excavations are precious bronze arts. Raising horses was a tradition for people in the Qin Dynasty. Horses were indispensable for fighting and transportation, so great importance was ...

When Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang banned, then burned books it caused a loss of knowledge for all of humanity. Now book bans ...

Zhao Gao, a high-ranking official of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.), gifted the emperor with a deer, insisting it was a horse. Laughing, the amused emperor asked his entourage what they thought.

The people also created a full reservoir and spillway ... The facility is the first Qin dynasty (221-207 BC) building described by archaeologists as being "systematic". The scientists described ...