As the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang would have wanted his legacy to be remembered long after his demise, hence the ...

In a remarkable discovery at China's illustrious Terracotta Army site, archaeologists have unearthed a rare 2,000 year old ...

When farmers digging a well in 1974 discovered the Terracotta Army, commissioned by China ... Andrew Bevan, an archaeologist at University College London, along with colleagues, used advanced ...

The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor of China into the afterlife, according to archaeologists. Ying Zheng took the throne ...

In earlier digs, archaeologists often watched helplessly ... and new preservation techniques is revealing the terra-cotta army’s true colors. A three-year excavation in Xian’s most famous ...

Archaeology is the scientific study of past ... archaeological discoveries of the 20th century—the life-size Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang (259 B.C. – 210 B.C.). The intricately ...

Officials and archaeologists descended on the region ... 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 ...