Qianling, the tomb of the third Tang emperor, Li Zhi ... herself and titled her reign "Zhou," becoming the first empress in Chinese history to rule the country. Well-versed in culture and history ...

Wu accused the Empress Wang of strangling the child (whom she had reputedly murdered herself), and persuaded the Emperor to remove ... followed by official Chinese historians over the centuries.

the first emperor of China. The reason for the mass burial of the statues is not crystal clear, although it’s often interpreted as a symbolic way of protecting the emperor in his afterlife.

Chinese Characters ... as the emperor’s concubine, she killed her own newborn child (the Emperor’s child too, of course), and then accused the Empress of having committed the murder.

Archaeologists excavating China's renowned Terracotta Army unearthed a rare life-sized statue of a senior general ... Li Gang, director of the Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum Site Museum ...