In Xi’an, thousands of life-size clay warriors stand guard over China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang. Recently, archaeologists uncovered a rare high-ranking officer among them, adding new intrigue to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeology isn’t supposed to happen by accident, though history might argue it does. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found by Bedouin shepherds in the Qumran caves of Palestine. The Rosetta Stone was ...