Remarkably, the terracotta figures are not “cookie cutter” copies ... As shown by his Terracotta Army and grand burial site, ...

Archaeologists excavating China's renowned Terracotta Army unearthed a rare life-sized statue of a senior general, the first ...

The monochrome figures that visitors to Xian’s terra-cotta army museum see today actually began as the multicolored fantasy of a ruler whose grandiose ambitions extended beyond the mortal realm.

When farmers digging a well in 1974 discovered the Terracotta Army ... are alike—raising the possibility that the figures are based on a real army of warriors. Knowing for sure will take ...

The terra-cotta army, as it is known ... Archaeologists estimate the pits may contain as many as 8,000 figures, but the total may never be known. Qin's tomb itself remains unexcavated, though ...

These burial figures date from the Tang dynasty in ... The most famous example is the life-size terracotta army created for the Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang around 200BC. By the time they got ...

Qin (d. 210 B.C.), the first unifier of China, is buried, surrounded by the famous terracotta warriors, at the centre of a complex designed to mirror the urban plan of the capital, Xianyan. The small ...