Archaeologists are too scared to open up the tomb of China’s first emperor for one reason ...
More than two thousand years after Emperor Qin Shi Huang was buried near Xi’an, the central chamber of his vast mausoleum has never been opened. The famous Terracotta Army, discovered in 1974, stands ...
In niche corners of the Chinese internet, discussions of the very first dynasty stand in for critiques of today’s China. Its importance lies not in scale, but in what its recent visibility suggests ...