Think terracotta warriors and usually only one Chinese city springs to mind: Xi’an. Nevertheless, 800km due east, deep in the heart of Jiangsu Province, here they stand: row after row of ...
The Terracotta Army is an impressive funerary monument built in ancient China to protect the first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, in the afterlife. It is one of the best-surviving monuments of ancient China.
What Yang and her friends are doing, in fact, is piecing together the 2,200-year-old mystery of the terra-cotta army, part of the celebrated (and still dimly understood) burial complex of China ...
The life-sized terracotta soldiers protecting the tomb of the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi (259 BC-210 BC), were accidentally found by well-diggers in 1974. Since the discovery of the First ...
The farmers, it would turn out, had stumbled upon one of the most stunning archaeological finds of the 20th Century: a terracotta army estimated at 8,000-strong, crafted on an industrial scale ...
In the underground world, there are not only terracotta warriors and horses, but also a variety of bronze relics, resurrected bronze beasts and an underground creature called the "Earth Horn".
These are the remaining reminder of great calamities. Excavators found three burial pits for terracotta figures of warriors, horses and chariots. One is to the south and the other two lie north of ...