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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Curator says ticket sales set a record for the National Geographic Museum ... It includes 15 life-size terra cotta figures and 100 sets of artifacts. "This army represents an unusual display ...

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 ...

They came about during excavations across the site by Mausoleum archaeologists, which have now been documented for television by the National Geographic ... think the Terracotta Army, the ...

The farmers contacted Chinese authorities, who sent out government archaeologists, reported National Geographic ... John Man who wrote The Terra Cotta Army. He was "nervous that he might be ...

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.

Elsewhere in the U.S., more recent exhibitions, including one that debuted at the National Geographic Museum in Washington in 2009, have showcased the terra-cotta army. And for six months in 2014 ...