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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
El Segundo-based commercial real estate credit investment firm The TerraCotta Group, which was founded two decades ago, has ...
The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor of China into the afterlife, according to archaeologists. Ying Zheng took the throne ...
About 5,500 miles of it still exists. The Terracotta Army was discovered in 1974 by farmers digging a well in Xian, Central China. Qin Shi Huang, the same Emperor who commanded the building of the ...