Discovered in the 1970s, the terra-cotta army was created 2,200 years ago to protect China’s first emperor in the afterlife. The land belonging to farmer Yang Zhifa in eastern China was covered ...

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... is piecing together the 2,200-year-old mystery of the terra-cotta army, part of the celebrated (and still dimly ...

Therefore, it’s only appropriate that on the week President Obama tours China, the National Geographic ... thousands of terra-cotta warriors standing side by side (no two are alike), Da Gang’s picture ...

Chinese workers digging a well in 1974 made a startling discovery: thousands of life-size terracotta figures of an army prepared ... According to National Geographic, some have suspected that ...

Ancient Greeks artists could have travelled to China 1,500 years before Marco Polo’s historic trip to the east and helped design the famous Terracotta Army, according to new research.

But one feature of the sprawling necropolis, which A.R. Williams at National Geographic ... museum that houses the terra cotta warriors. “We now think the Terra cotta Army, the acrobats and ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of what appears to be an ancient sheep-drawn chariot near the famous "Terracotta Army" in northwestern ... NBC News, National Geographic, Scientific ...

who ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C. "The First Emperor's magnificent terra cotta army is one of the great wonders of the ancient world," said Terry Garcia, National Geographic's executive vice ...