Local farmers discovered thousands of terracotta warrior statues in Shaanxi, China, in 1974. How much do you know about these ...

Archaeology is the scientific study of past human life and activities through the recovery and analysis of material remains, ...

A momentous discovery was made by a group of farmers in the Shaanxi province, China, on 29 March 1974. Yang Zhifa, his five ...

The monochrome figures that visitors to Xian’s terra-cotta army museum see today actually began as the multicolored fantasy of a ruler whose grandiose ambitions extended beyond the mortal realm.

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Housing over 7,000 life-size terra cotta figures excavated from the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor, this is Xi'an's main attraction ... General Xiang Yu's army less than five ...

its own terracotta army. In terms of appearance, the 4,000-strong Xuzhou army is significantly smaller (most stand at around 50cm) than their life-sized Qin Dynasty counterparts in Xi’an.

Workers digging a well outside the city of Xi'an, China, in 1974 struck upon ... behind them are wooden chariots. The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created ...