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The Epang Palace was a Chinese palace complex built during the reign of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China and the founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty. It is located in western Xi’an, Shaanxi Province. Archaeologists believe that only the front hall was completed before the capital was sacked in 206 BCE. [1]
With the completion of the Shaanxi History Museum, it collected over 370,000 precious relics which were unearthed in Shaanxi Province, including bronze wares, pottery figures, and mural paintings in Tang tombs. In particular there are large numbers of pottery Tang dynasty tomb figures from the tombs of the imperial family around the city.
The Taerpo horserider is a Chinese Zhou dynasty period Warrior-State Qin terracotta figurine from a tomb in the Taerpo cemetery (塔兒坡墓) near Xianyang in Shaanxi Province, dated to the 4th-3rd century BCE. Another nearly-identical statuette is known, from the same tomb.
The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (Chinese: 秦始皇陵; pinyin: Qínshǐhuáng Líng) is the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin dynasty. It is located in Lintong District , Xi'an, Shaanxi province of China.
All the buildings and facilities together formed a complete system of an ancient city. In June 2002, more than 36,000 Qin Bamboo slips were unearthed in an ancient well, the event was considered as the most important archaeological discovery of the Qin dynasty after the Qin Terracotta Army unearthed in 1973 in an eastern suburb of Xi'an. [1]
Ka La Qin Palace or Harqin/Kharchin Palace (Chinese: 喀喇沁王府) is a Qing dynasty mansion in Wangyefu village, Harqin Banner, south eastern Inner Mongolia, China. It lies 67 kilometres south of Chifeng and 150 kilometres north east of Chengde, location of the Imperial Mountain Resort. Currently, it houses the Wangfu museum related to the ...
The Liye Qin Slips Museum (Chinese: 里耶秦簡博物館) is a museum of bamboo and wooden slips of the Qin dynasty unearthed in 2002. It is located in the northeast of seat of Liye Town , Longshan County , Hunan Province , China . [ 1 ]
Xianyang Palace , in (Qin) Xianyang (咸陽), now 15 km/9 miles east of modern Xianyang, Shaanxi province, was the royal palace of the state of Qin before the Chinese unification, and then the palace of the First Emperor when China was unified. The palace was a complex terraced building, and had elaborate murals inside. [1]