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 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 ...
The tomb is protected by a terracotta army of soldiers and horses. It was discovered in 1974 in the Shaanxi province of China ...
Figurines from the so-called "terracotta army of Cyprus" are to go on show in the UK for the first time. The larger than life-size clay figures were discovered in north-west Cyprus and will join ...
The Terracotta Army is believed to be a part of the funerary complex for Qin Shi Huang, the "first Qin Emperor" and the largest funerary complex in the world. It is currently a UNESCO World ...
The Terracotta army is arranged in a military formation, with three divisions and a command center. They symbolize the garrison guarding Qin's capital, Xianyang, during the reign of Emperor ...