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A tourist has damaged two ancient clay figures from the terracotta army, one of China's foremost archaeological treasures.
Producing the terra-cotta army required a standardized mass-production ... After placing the groups of figures in their formations, these passages were covered with large wooden beams, sealed ...
Two of the famous clay terracotta warriors in Xi'an, China have suffered damage after a tourist jumped into the restricted ...
“World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century” is on view through Oct. 16 ...
Archaeologists uncovered additional terracotta warriors at the mausoleum of China’s first emperor. The fresh find features a statue of a high-ranking commander—the first statue of a commander ...
Archaeologists studying China's famous "Terracotta Army" have uncovered what they believe to be a rare, life-size statue of a high-ranking military officer, local media report. The highly adorned ...
Two Chinese terracotta warrior statues, thought to be around 2,000 years old, were damaged after a tourist climbed over a ...
The Terracotta Army, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since ... They are arranged in military formations across three large pits and represent the emperor's army. Archaeologists have excavated over ...
Credit: ITV News Buried alongside the soldiers and horses, they have found officials, musicians, dancers, terracotta ... the life-size army and set them in battle formation to protect him in ...
And the Terracotta Army—approximately 8,000 pottery soldiers created to guard the gravesite of the first emperor of a unified China—was found by farmers digging a well. The last of these ...