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 soldiers and ...

In March 1974, a group of unsuspecting farmers digging a well near Xi'an, China, quickly noticed that they struck something unusual. What they thought might be an old pottery kiln turned out to be one ...

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A gift of a life-sized replica of a Chinese “terracotta warrior” and a horse from the Qin Dynasty of ancient China was ...

Authorities raiding a tourist attraction comprised of a fake terracotta army (all images by Meili Lintong via Lintong council’s Weibo) China’s Lintong District is famed for its thousands of terracotta ...

A regiment of terracotta soldiers stands in a tomb pit at the Museum of the Terracotta Army in Xian, China. XI'AN, CHINA - MARCH 24: First Lady Michelle Obama with her daughters Malia Obama and Sasha ...

The terra cotta army is one of the greatest, and most famous, archaeological discoveries ever made. Over eight thousand life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the mausoleum of the ...

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