A rare decorated statue was uncovered among the "terracotta army" in the tomb of the ancient Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang.
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 ...
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 ...
The diggers notified Chinese authorities ... behind them are wooden chariots. The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor ...
What Yang and her friends are doing, in fact, is piecing together the 2,200-year-old mystery of the terra-cotta army ... ancient paint, alas, adheres to dirt more readily than to lacquer—Chinese ...
In 1974, farmers in Shaanxi, China, uncovered the terracotta army guarding Qin Shi Huang ... For now, Qin Shi Huang’s tomb remains sealed, an ancient mystery protected by time, superstition ...
The exhibition "Qin Shihuang: Chinese Terracotta Warriors" featuring hundreds of palace-level cultural relics featuring terracotta warriors will be exhibited at the British Museum on September 13.
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