Qin Shi Huang and the Search for Immortality Through Mercury
In 210 BCE, Qin Shi Huang died while travelling through his empire. He was only forty-nine. For years he had paid specialists to search for an elixir of life, sent expeditions toward islands of immortals, and consumed mineral-based pills. His death did not end the programme. It made every record about the potion dangerous to the people who had sold an emperor the promise of living forever.
In 210 BCE, Qin Shi Huang died while travelling through his empire. He was only forty-nine. For years he had paid specialists to search for an elixir of life, sent expeditions toward islands of immortals, and consumed mineral-based pills. His death did not end the programme. It made every record about the potion dangerous to the people who had sold an emperor the promise of living forever.
In 210 BCE, Qin Shi Huang died while travelling through his empire. He was only forty-nine. For years he had paid specialists to search for an elixir of life, sent expeditions toward islands of immortals, and consumed mineral-based pills. His death did not end the programme. It made every record about the potion dangerous to the people who had sold an emperor the promise of living forever.
In 210 BCE, Qin Shi Huang died while travelling through his empire. He was only forty-nine. For years he had paid specialists to search for an elixir of life, sent expeditions toward islands of immortals, and consumed mineral-based pills. His death did not end the programme. It made every record about the potion dangerous to the people who had sold an emperor the promise of living forever.
In 210 BCE, Qin Shi Huang died while travelling through his empire. He was only forty-nine. For years he had paid specialists to search for an elixir of life, sent expeditions toward islands of immortals, and consumed mineral-based pills. His death did not end the programme. It made every record about the potion dangerous to the people who had sold an emperor the promise of living forever.
In 210 BCE, Qin Shi Huang died while travelling through his empire. He was only forty-nine. For years he had paid specialists to search for an elixir of life, sent expeditions toward islands of immortals, and consumed mineral-based pills. His death did not end the programme. It made every record about the potion dangerous to the people who had sold an emperor the promise of living forever.