Day 281: The Emperor Qin Mausoleum

The Emperor Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum Site Park, covering an area of 2.26 square kilometers, is located in Lintong district, Xi' an city Shaanxi province. It’s one of
many components within the Emperor
Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum, which also include the Emperor Qin
Shihuang's Terracotta Army Museum situated about 1.5 kilometers east
of mausoleum. The site park is closed to the core region of Emperor Qin
Shihuang's Mausoleum, once called in ancient time as li shan yuan . The
core region refers to the area with a boundary 20 meters out of the outer
city wall (a length of 2220 meters from south to north, a width of 1010
meters from east to west). The Emperor Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum Site
Park is to preserve a large number of archaeological sites, and to display
rich cultural remains recovered from satellite pits. The establishment of
this site-park, which opened on Oct. 1, 2010, signifies the unique function
of preservations and exhibits for mega-archaeological sites under
administration of a multi-levelled scale museum system-the Emperor Qin
Shihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum.Read more