The statue, believed to be of a high-ranking military commander, was discovered at the famous Terracotta Army site in China, ...

"Based on its location, we believe this figure was likely the highest-ranking military commander of this unit." ...

An artist has recreated 170,000 Leicestershire people in clay form to mark the peak of the world human population. Julian ...

Cyprus is all too used to its artefacts being plundered. In our time, we’ve lost the Kanakaria mosaics, the Antiphonitis ...

The Chinese Qin Emperor's Terracotta Army is 8,000 soldiers strong and has been referred to as the eighth World Wonder. The 2,200-year-old terracotta army is seen at the Qin Terracotta Warriors ...

Hidden among the famed Terracotta Army, this rare find is unlike anything seen in decades, shedding new light on the organisation and leadership of an army frozen in time for over two millennia.

Archaeologists uncovered additional terracotta warriors at the mausoleum of China’s first emperor. The fresh find features a statue of a high-ranking commander—the first statue of a commander ...

The farmers, it would turn out, had stumbled upon one of the most stunning archaeological finds of the 20th Century: a terracotta army estimated at 8,000-strong, crafted on an industrial scale ...

What Yang and her friends are doing, in fact, is piecing together the 2,200-year-old mystery of the terra-cotta army, part of the celebrated (and still dimly understood) burial complex of China ...

China’s other terracotta army. To understand why, you need to know a little Chinese history. Today, Xuzhou might not be as famous as nearby capital Nanjing or Shanghai, but that wasn’t always ...