He was the first person to rule unified China and reigned from 221BC to 210BC ... as it’s home to thousands of life-sized ...

China in 1974 was in the closing stages of ... Zhao, as Man recounts in his book The Terracotta Army, had personally been subject to a "self-criticism" session in the late 1960s, as a person ...

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 life-sized terracotta soldiers protecting the tomb of the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi (259 BC-210 BC), were accidentally found by well-diggers in 1974. Since the discovery of the First ...

China’s other terracotta army. To understand why, you need to know a little Chinese history. Today, Xuzhou might not be as famous as nearby capital Nanjing or Shanghai, but that wasn’t always ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists are terrified to open the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor who has been buried for 2,200 years.