A rare decorated statue was uncovered among the "terracotta army" in the tomb of the ancient Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang. Based on the figure's features and location, archaeologists believe that ...

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 ...

These life-sized soldier-like statues number over 8,000 and were first uncovered in the 1970s. The exact tomb belonging to Qin Shi Huang is yet to be uncovered by archaeologists.

Archaeologists have unearthed a treasure-filled tomb guarded by the Terracotta Army that may belong to the son of the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. After bad weather threatened the coffin ...

The Terracotta army is thought to consist of 8,000 sculpted "warriors" located in three pits about a mile northeast of the mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang (259 B.C. to 210 B.C.), who unified ...

The mausoleum attributed to Qin Shi Huang is a colossal structure, dwarfing the Forbidden City by a factor of 70. It is recognized as the largest known tomb ever constructed for an individual in ...

As the country’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang unified China. He is believed to have had an army of more than 500,000 men. Historical Chinese texts do not discuss the Terracotta Army or indicate ...

After Qin Shi Huangdi’s death in 210 BCE, this vast, incredibly detailed resting place disappeared from the historical record until 1974, when farmers in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province discovered ...

Thousands of life-size terra-cotta soldiers stand in Pit 1, the largest repository of figurines at the third-century B.C. funerary complex of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi, near Xi’an, China.

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