Local farmers discovered thousands of terracotta warrior statues in Shaanxi, China, in 1974. How much do you know about these ...

As shown by his Terracotta Army and grand burial site, it seems Emperor Qin Shi Huang was proud of his achievements and ...

The terra-cotta army, as it is known ... a collection of warring kingdoms and took the name of Qin Shi Huang Di—the First Emperor of Qin. During his rule, Qin standardized coins, weights ...

Qin Shihuang was the first emperor ... massive underground pit packed with squads of terracotta armies and horses, all made to accompany the emperor into his afterlife. It is one of China's ...

While we might be familiar with the image of the Terracotta Army as rows ... came from. The emperor the warriors protected was also a fascinating figure in China’s history. Qin Shi Huang ...

The world-famous Terracotta Army was constructed to accompany the ... models to represent the guard troops of the first emperor Qin Shi Huang. They were moulded in parts, fired, assembled and ...

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 ...

becoming King of Qin at the age of thirteen. Mostly told through the use of re-enactments, the story continues to the present day and the discovery of the Emperor's tomb and terracotta army in 1974.

Archaeologists think that the tomb may be an entire replica of the Chinese city of Xi'an built to honor the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang ... know about the Terracotta Army, which the ...