The Qin dynasty terracotta warriors from Emperor Qin Shihuang’s tomb are some of the most significant and well-known Chinese ...

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 ...

A rare decorated statue was uncovered among the "terracotta army" in the tomb of the ancient Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang. Based on the figure's features and location, archaeologists believe that ...

When farmers digging a well in 1974 discovered the Terracotta Army, commissioned by China’s first emperor two millennia ago, the sheer numbers were staggering: an estimated 7,000 soldiers ...

A curator from the Houston Museum of Natural Science explains how the terra cotta warriors were discovered and what they reveal about China s Qin dynasty National Treasure: Amelia Earhart ...

The soldiers are in trenchlike, underground corridors. In some of the corridors, clay horses are aligned four abreast; behind them are wooden chariots. The terra-cotta army, as it is known ...

Half a century ago, Chinese farmers stumbled upon an enormous underground mausoleum full of life-size clay people, animals and military equipment. Archaeologists think that the tomb may be an ...

They had found one of 8,000 terracotta foot soldiers, archers, horses and charioteers buried beneath the surface of the field in an area covering seven square miles. The life-size warriors dated ...

China’s other terracotta army. To understand why, you need to know a little Chinese history. Today, Xuzhou might not be as famous as nearby capital Nanjing or Shanghai, but that wasn’t always ...