The tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor who reigned from 221 BC to 210 BC, has remained untouched for more than ...

Many people know about the army of life-sized terracotta statues buried with Chinese first emperor Qin Shi Huang in the city of Xi’an. Discovered in 1974 and holding more than 8,000 clay ...

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 ...

Qin’s army of clay soldiers and horses was not a somber ... serendipity and new preservation techniques is revealing the terra-cotta army’s true colors. A three-year excavation in Xian ...

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 ...

There’s a terracotta general, who remains the highest-ranking soldier uncovered at the mausoleum site in Xi’an; the terracotta musician, a kneeling figure who is believed to be striking a ...

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 ...

The tomb of Qin Shu Huang, who ruled from 221 BC to 210 BC, is guarded by a terracotta army of soldiers and horses. The ...

“The publisher of a local leftwing newspaper [Ta Kung Pao], Mr Fei Yi-ming, who was recently elected a Standing Committee member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in ...

Archaeologists haven’t dared look inside the tomb of China’s first Emperor. Chances are you’re aware of Qin Shi Huang’s final resting place, even if you’ve never heard of him. He was the first person ...