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 ...

These clay figures are the famous Terracotta Army, and had remained undiscovered until 1974 whe farmers found the special ...

ITV News was invited to visit on the 50th anniversary year of what was one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. | ITV National News ...

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 ...

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 terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor of China into the afterlife, according to archaeologists. Ying Zheng took the throne ...

The tomb is protected by a terracotta army of soldiers and horses. It was discovered in 1974 in the Shaanxi province of China ...

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 ...