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 diggers notified Chinese authorities, who dispatched government archaeologists to the site. They found not one, but thousands of clay soldiers, each with unique facial expressions and ...

Nevertheless, 800km due east, deep in the heart of Jiangsu Province, here they stand: row after row of infantry and horses sketched in rough, grey earthen clay. China’s other terracotta army.