In a remarkable discovery at China's illustrious Terracotta Army site, archaeologists have unearthed a rare 2,000 year old statue thought to be that of a top military official. The clay figure was ...

Dating back thousands of years, the Terracotta Army guards the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang and has never been opened.

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

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.

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 ...

The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor of China into the afterlife, according to archaeologists. Ying Zheng took the throne ...

The monochrome figures that visitors to Xian’s terra-cotta army museum see today actually ... time—or the exposure to air that comes with discovery and excavation. In earlier digs ...

China’s other terracotta army. To understand why ... To date, hundreds of Han tombs have been discovered in and around Xuzhou, of which the public can visit just two. Concealed on the western ...

But this was no ordinary discovery – although the looters ... 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 1974, farmers in Shaanxi, China, uncovered the terracotta army guarding Qin Shi Huang’s tomb—a burial site of China’s first emperor, hidden for 2,200 years. Though archaeologists have ...

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 ...