Mausoleum - First Emperor of China

Although he avoided an assassination attempt, Qin Shi Huangdi knew that one day he would die. To prepare for the afterlife, the First Emperor ordered about 700,000 enslaved workers to build a magnificent mausoleum and underground city of death. To be sure his forced laborers did not escape, they were branded on their faces. (Move the clip forward to 9:00 to see that segment.)

This video clip, from Secrets of the First Emperor, takes us back thousands of years - to the time of Qin Shi Huangdi, the famous Chinese emperor who also unified weights, measures, writing and laws.