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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 ...
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 ...
The exhibit, titled "Timeless Warriors and Relics: 1,500 Years of Ancient China," will be on display at the museum Jan. 20 to April 13, 2008.
In an earthen pit in central China, under what used to be their village’s persimmon orchard, three middle-aged women are hunched over an ancient jigsaw puzzle. Yang Rongrong, a cheerful 57-year ...
Art World There Are 8,000 Known Terracotta Warriors. But Archaeologists in China Just Found More Than 200 Others The discovery helps paint a clearer picture of how the Chinese military once operated.
A man has reportedly jumped into a pit at the terracotta warriors museum in China, damaging two of the famous ancient clay warriors. According to a statement from public security officials ...
The Terra Cotta statues weigh about 180 kilograms (400 pounds) each and range in height up to 183-195 centimeters (6 feet to 6 feet 5 inches) depending on rank. Generals are the tallest.
The exhibition includes 15 terra cotta figures from the tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi, who ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C.
China's 2,000-year-old terra-cotta warriors are getting some female company thanks to a Norweign artist who's living next door to the farmer who found the famous array of clay sol ...
The soldiers, archers, musicians and generals now stand in the National Geographic Museum in “Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor,” which runs through March.
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.
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