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Half a century ago, Chinese farmers stumbled upon an enormous underground mausoleum full of life-size clay people, animals and military equipment. Archaeologists think that the tomb may be an entire ...

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 ...

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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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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 ...

In ancient China, the concept of the afterlife was deeply intertwined with daily life, power, and legacy. For Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of a unified China, the afterlife wasn’t just a place to ...

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, ...

Two Chinese terracotta warrior statues, thought to be around 2,000 years old, were damaged after a tourist climbed over a museum fence. Public security officials say the 30-year-old was visiting the ...