The terra-cotta army, as it is known ... According to writings of court historian Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the mausoleum's construction shortly after taking the ...

Explore Xi'an, the incredible ancient city and the ‘birthplace of civilisation,' home to the Terracotta Army and countless ...

New additions to the Terracotta Army have been unearthed in China ... various ethnic and cultural groups that fell under the Qin dynasty (221 BCE-206 BCE). This period marks the first successful ...

its own terracotta army. In terms of appearance, the 4,000-strong Xuzhou army is significantly smaller (most stand at around 50cm) than their life-sized Qin Dynasty counterparts in Xi’an.

the statue is only the tenth officer found since the Terracotta Army was first discovered in 1974, making it an important discovery for understanding the military organization of the Qin dynasty ...

A curator from the Houston Museum of Natural Science explains how the terra cotta warriors were discovered and what they reveal about China s Qin dynasty The Gory Origins of Valentine's Day (02: ...

The monochrome figures that visitors to Xian’s terra-cotta army museum see today actually ... The first emperor to unify China under a single dynasty, Qin Shi Huang Di packed a lot into his ...

Say the word Xi'an, and people think of the Chinese city's astounding collection of terracotta warriors, created to guard the Emperor Qin Shi Huang's tomb in the third century B.C. But on a recent ...

Qin Shi Huang had the work on his enormous mausoleum started early in his reign. When they were unearthed in 1974 in Xi'an, the terracotta warriors of the "underground army" of some 8,000 vivid ...

Archaeologists have made an incredible new discovery at the famous Terracotta Army site ... Experts believe the army was buried to protect Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, in the afterlife.

The Xi’an Centre Culture Business District (CCBD), a 155,000 sq m neighbourhood designed by UK architect Heatherwick Studio, ...