His tomb in China's Shaanxi Province takes up more than 20 square miles and contains around 8,000 life-size clay statues of soldiers known as the "terracotta army." They carry spears, swords ...

Further excavations have revealed swords, arrow tips ... behind them are wooden chariots. The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first ...

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 ...