Fifty years since the discovery of the hoard of life-sized terracotta warriors in the Lintong County mausoleum of China’s first emperor, archaeologists have uncovered a rare new figure resembling a ...

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Chinese farmers digging for water in 1974 stumbled upon fragments of terracotta, leading to the discovery of the Terracotta Army. This accidental find revealed thousands of life-sized clay figures, ...

Authorities raiding a tourist attraction comprised of a fake terracotta army (all images by Meili Lintong via Lintong council’s Weibo) China’s Lintong District is famed for its thousands of terracotta ...

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 ...

A tourist forced his way into the third-century BCE “Terracotta Army,” a group of thousands of ancient sculptures of soldiers in Shaanxi province in China, resulting in damage to some of the works, ...

A man broke into the terracotta army museum in Xi’an, China last Friday, damaging two of the ancient clay warriors—some of China’s most prized archaeological treasures—before being detained by ...

The incident is currently under investigation. A local tourist apparently suffering from a “mental illness” caused chaos and destruction at the Terracotta Army Museum in X’ian, China, damaging several ...