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 ... never be known. Qin's tomb itself remains unexcavated ...

Half a century ago, Chinese farmers stumbled upon an enormous underground mausoleum full of life-size clay people, animals and military ... to honor the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang ...

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’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang Di. It usually ...

Nevertheless, 800km due east, deep in the heart of Jiangsu Province, here they stand: row after row of infantry and horses sketched in rough, grey earthen clay. China’s other terracotta army.

TONDABAYASHI, Osaka Prefecture--In a rare find, researchers unearthed various “haniwa” (clay figures ... mausoleum of Emperor Keitai,” in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture. The tomb is thought ...

Qin Shi Huang, the same Emperor who commanded the building of the Great Wall, ordered the creation of an army made out of clay ... tomb. The Forbidden City was the home of the Emperors of China ...

Half a century ago, Chinese farmers stumbled upon an enormous underground mausoleum full of life-size clay ... emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, who died in 210 B.C. Excavations within the tomb ...