The Terracotta Army was discovered in 1974 during the construction ... and are thought to have been built to protect China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang (who lived from 259 B.C. to 210 B.C ...

Explore Xi'an, the incredible ancient city and the ‘birthplace of civilisation,' home to the Terracotta Army and countless ...

The terra-cotta army, as it is known ... working on the site told the Chinese press that the chamber may have been built for the soul of the emperor. Experimental pits dug around the tomb have ...

And yet they’re actually banal in comparison. In its own way, this find was akin to the Chinese Terracotta Army; and there’s simply nothing else like it in Cyprus – or in most countries!” ...

Archaeologists have made an incredible new discovery at the famous Terracotta Army site in China, unearthing a rare 2,000-year-old statue believed to depict a high-ranking military commander.

What Yang and her friends are doing, in fact, is piecing together the 2,200-year-old mystery of the terra-cotta army, part of the celebrated (and still dimly understood) burial complex of China ...

Archaeologists excavating China's renowned Terracotta Army unearthed a rare life-sized statue of a senior general, the first of its kind to be discovered at the site. The figure was discovered in ...

Say the word Xi'an, and people think of the Chinese city's astounding collection of terracotta warriors, created to guard the Emperor Qin Shi Huang's tomb in the third century B.C. But on a recent ...