Many people know about the army of life-sized terracotta statues buried with Chinese first emperor Qin Shi Huang in the city of Xi’an. Discovered in 1974 and holding more than 8,000 clay ...

Bowers Museum President and CEO Sean O’Harrow, left, and Chief Curator, Tianlong Jiao, talk about the new Terracotta Warriors exhibition opening in Santa Ana on May 24. They stand in front of an ...

Archaeologists studying China 's famous "Terracotta Army" have uncovered what they believe to be a rare, life-size statue of a high-ranking military officer, local media report.

China’s famed terracotta warrior army is adding to its ranks. Archaeologists recently discovered yet another statue, this one believed to depict a high-ranking commander—a rare find among the ...

And the Terracotta Army—approximately 8,000 pottery soldiers created to guard the gravesite of the first emperor of a unified China—was found by farmers digging a well.

Two Chinese terracotta warrior statues, thought to be around 2,000 years old, were damaged after a tourist climbed over a museum fence. Public security officials say the 30-year-old was visiting ...

The Terracotta Army was built on the emperor's orders to guard the underground palace where he was buried, to protect him in the afterlife. Just as the palace mirrored the imperial capital, the ...