But is it the brilliant ancient relics assembles here that people come to see, in what is sometimes called the “cradle of Chinese civilization ... army of the first emperor of the Qin ...

He used his strong military force to annex other six states in the east and founded the first united and centralized state in Chinese ... Second Emperor of Qin forced all the imperial palace ...

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, according to archaeologists. Ying Zheng took the throne ...

were brought to the palace to teach the principles of Euclidean geometry to the Kangxi Emperor, who made time for four hours of daily lessons in between his other duties. These and other snippets of ...

Archaeologists are terrified to open the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor who has been buried for 2,200 years.

Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and Princess Aiko moved out of their longtime residence, the Akasaka Imperial Residence, on Sept. 6. They are moving into the renovated Imperial Palace and ...