The Mausoleum of Emperor Qing Shi Huang is situated at the foot of Mount Li and 2 km west of the Terracotta Army. It is the largest preserved underground tomb in the world. According to the biography Emperor Qin from the Records of the Grand Historian, more than 720,000 laborers were sent to build the Mausoleum. The mausoleum was constructed from 246 to 208 BC, lasted over 38 years, which is 8 year longer than the construction of Khufu Pyramid in Egypt.
The layout of themausoleum is modeled on the capital of Qin, Xianyang. In size, the mausoleum is larger than the Great pyramid in Egypt. The mound of the mausoleum is 55.05 meters high and 2000 meters in girth. Through investigating finding, originally, the mausoleum covers an area of 220 square km, and it has large-scale palace Pavilion buildings. The mausoleum construction can be divided into two part, an interior city and an exterior city.
