Unlike the Terracotta Army, history, it seems, is not set in stone. Every so often, a new discovery comes along which questions what we believed to be an irrefutable truth about the past. This appears ...

The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor of China into ...

In March 1974, a group of unsuspecting farmers digging a well near Xi'an, China, quickly noticed that they struck something unusual. What they thought might be an old pottery kiln turned out to be one ...

Introduction: Legends and the 1974 discovery -- I: History. Warrior Chu ; The ancestors of Qin Shihuang ; From provincial kings to universal emperor ; Creation of the temporal empire -- II: Mystery.

Monday felt like Christmas morning at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana. But, instead of unwrapping gifts under the tree, museum curators unboxed something historic: 2,200-year-old terracotta warriors ...