These terracotta warriors, horses and bronze weapons represent the high level of handicraft of the Qin Dynasty. Each life-size warrior and horse figurine was made individually. Some of the ...

Say the word Xi'an, and people think of the Chinese city's astounding collection of terracotta warriors, created to guard the Emperor Qin Shi Huang's tomb in the third century B.C. But on a recent ...

Qin Shi Huang had work on his enormous mausoleum started early in his reign. The terracotta warriors of the “underground army” guarding the mausoleum, unearthed in 1974, amazed the world.

Whether you book one in advance or hire a guide at the entrance, they’ll provide fascinating details about the warriors, the pits, and the history of the Qin Dynasty that you might otherwise miss.

Think terracotta warriors and usually only one Chinese ... he led his Pei County militia in the revolt that defeated the unpopular Qin Dynasty. In its wake, defacto rebel leader General Xiang ...

The terra-cotta army, as it is known ... According to writings of court historian Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the mausoleum's construction shortly after taking the ...

What Yang and her friends are doing, in fact, is piecing together the 2,200-year-old mystery of the terra-cotta army ... to unify China under a single dynasty, Qin Shi Huang Di packed a lot ...

The Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses and the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum were fairly recently combined into the larger Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum, which also includes ...

Qin (d. 210 B.C.), the first unifier of China, is buried, surrounded by the famous terracotta warriors, at the centre of a complex designed to mirror the urban plan of the capital, Xianyan. The small ...

A curator from the Houston Museum of Natural Science explains how the terra cotta warriors were discovered and what they reveal about China s Qin dynasty National Treasure: The Mold Behind the ...