The Terracotta Army Of China Is World Famous, But Few Are Aware Of Another Incredible Discovery Only A Few Miles Away ...

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 ...

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 ...

While we might be familiar with the image of the Terracotta Army as rows and rows of brown figures, they were once painted in bright colours, which faded as soon as they were exposed to light and ...

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 ...