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 terra-cotta army, as it is known ... (Read more about the complicated history surrounding the burial complex and see a map of the tomb.) 1 of 12 Petra, JordanA person standing in the doorway ...

“The publisher of a local leftwing newspaper [Ta Kung Pao], Mr Fei Yi-ming, who was recently elected a Standing Committee member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in ...