Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum

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The Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum centers on a vast, vegetation-covered hill that rises above the landscape, disguising the massive, unexcavated tomb of China's first emperor. Beneath this mound lies the final resting place of Qin Shi Huang, who unified China in the third century BCE and commanded the construction of a subterranean city for his afterlife. The site is a monumental project that required thirty-nine years of labor by hundreds of thousands of workers to complete.

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