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

He ruled until his death in 210 BCE at the age of 50. Qin Shi Huangdi remains a controversial figure in Chinese history. After unifying China, he and his chief adviser Li Si passed a series of ...

Qin Shi Huangdi, or the First Emperor of Qin ... In July 210 BCE, Qin Shi Huang died while on a tour of Eastern China. Owing to a plot by the eunuch Zhao Gao, his eldest son, Crown Prince Fusu ...

By 221 BCE, the final kingdom fell, and Zheng proclaimed himself Qin Shi Huangdi or "First Sovereign ... he is believed to have died from drinking mercury contained in his special potions.

By 221 B.C. he had unified a collection of warring kingdoms and took the name of Qin Shi Huang Di—the First Emperor of Qin. During his rule, Qin standardized coins, weights, and measures ...

Qin Shi Huang had the work on his enormous mausoleum started early in his reign. When they were unearthed in 1974 in Xi'an, the terracotta warriors of the "underground army" of some 8,000 vivid ...