ITV News was invited to visit on the 50th anniversary year of what was one of the most significant archaeological discoveries ...

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.

The world-famous Terracotta Army was constructed to accompany the tomb ... Here we see one of the exhibits at the Stele Forest or Xi'an Beilin Museum, a museum for steles and stone sculptures ...

its own terracotta army. In terms of appearance, the 4,000-strong Xuzhou army is significantly smaller (most stand at around 50cm) than their life-sized Qin Dynasty counterparts in Xi’an.

Workers digging a well outside the city of Xi'an, China, in 1974 struck upon ... behind them are wooden chariots. The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created ...