The Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art at the Midland Center for the Arts will host an exhibit of the famous Chinese terra cotta warriors from the tomb of the first Chinese Emperor Qin Shihuang (246 ...

HONG KONG — Zhao Kangmin, an archaeologist who pieced together pottery fragments discovered by farmers and reconstructed the life-size terra-cotta warriors that have become one of China’s best-known ...

WHAT: "Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor" at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in Santa Ana, Calif. WHEN: Through Oct. 12. HOW MUCH: $25 weekdays, $27 weekends. On Friday nights ...

If China’s Colosseum is the Great Wall, then its David—or more accurately, its Davids—is its famed army of Terracotta Warriors. A group of the breathtaking life-size soldiers that guarded Emperor Qin ...

BEIJING — China is expanding the ranks of the famed Terra Cotta Warrior army with new excavations expected to yield hundreds more of the ancient life-size figures. The museum overseeing the vast ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Students at East Middle School in Sioux City experienced hands-on learning about ancient Chinese artifacts through a special project on Thursday. Heidi Strong, a sixth-grade ...

The figures, made nearly 2,000 years ago, were discovered in huge underground pits outside the city of Xi’an in 1974. Shihuangdi’s tomb complex was massive, taking 36 years to make, and it’s estimated ...

Fresh excavations near the tomb of China’s first emperor have revealed 110 new terra-cotta warriors that have been covered up for 2,200 years, archaeologists said -- adding to the army of over 8,000 ...

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. In an earthen pit in central China, under what used to be their village’s persimmon orchard, three middle-aged women are ...

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. In an earthen pit in central China, under what used to be their village’s persimmon orchard, three middle-aged women are ...