It is also where the Silk Road ended in the East and is home to the famed army of terracotta soldiers that belonged to the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang.
Started during the Tang Dynasty and later expanded by Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644), the stone wall extends more than 13.7km and is the most complete city fortification to have survived in China.
Earlier this year Uzbekistan banned Valentine's day and introduced plans instead to commemorate the medieval emperor and poet, Babur, who became the first Mughal emperor and was born on 14 February.
In the new study, scientists first located the emperor-penguin breeding colonies by scanning satellite images for telltale patches of reddish-brown penguin guano on the ice, which are readily spotted from space.
The project to safeguard the Altar of Peace, erected by the Emperor Augustus in the first century B.
The Herzen State University, Russia's leading pedagogical university, was founded in 1797 by Emperor Paul the First and remains dedicated to teachers' training in a wide variety of disciplines.
Vienna, in fact, has three, thanks to the 700-year-old legacy of Emperor Albrecht I, who authorized the first Christkindlmarkt in 1296.
Schroeder was due to meet Japanese government leaders and Emperor Akihito on the first leg of an Asian tour.
In 1822, Dom Pedro, founder of the Brazilian Empire was crowned as first emperor of Brazil and ruled as Pedro I.
Its history goes back to the Emperor Domitian in the first century.
WSJ: Rome's Piazza Navona: Perfection, Squared | Masterpiece by Willard Spiegelman
Remember the Chinese fable of the mighty emperor who agreed to give a wily supplicant one grain of rice for the first square on a chess board, double that for the second square, double again for the third and so on, before he realised that he would be giving away his whole kingdom's supply before the board was half-finished.
应用推荐