Archaeologists have made an incredible new discovery at the famous Terracotta Army site in China, unearthing a rare 2,000-year-old statue believed to depict a high-ranking military commander.

Explore Xi'an, the incredible ancient city and the ‘birthplace of civilisation,' home to the Terracotta Army and countless ...

Over the past five decades, archaeologists have excavated huge parts of the site and unearthed thousands of life-sized terracotta statues of soldiers and war horses, as well as acrobats ...

When archaeologists began excavating the undergound site more than 40 years ago, they found pits filled with row upon row of life-size human statues made of terra-cotta — each a sculpted work of ...

Now, this 72cm terracotta model depicting the wild ... artist in 1655—represented Bernini’s initial ideas for a marble statue for a fountain on Piazza Navona, one of Rome’s most important ...