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Many people know about the army of life-sized terracotta statues buried with Chinese first emperor Qin Shi Huang in the city of Xi’an. Discovered in 1974 and holding more than 8,000 clay soldiers and ...

French artist Prune Nourry is exploring this issue of gender selection in China by riffing off of one of its most iconic heritage sites: the Terracotta Warriors. Like her Holy Daughters, the ...

Ticket changes: In 2026, tickets are digital-only and must be booked online up to 7 days in advance using your passport, which is scanned at entry. Best travel route: Skip tourist buses—take Xi’an ...

Fifty years since the discovery of the hoard of life-sized terracotta warriors in the Lintong County mausoleum of China’s first emperor, archaeologists have uncovered a rare new figure resembling a ...

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A man broke into the terracotta army museum in Xi’an, China last Friday, damaging two of the ancient clay warriors—some of China’s most prized archaeological treasures—before being detained by ...

A 30-year-old domestic tourist damaged two warriors of China’s esteemed Terracotta Army in an incident last Friday. The man, who officials believe “[suffers] from mental illness” is currently under ...

Archaeology isn’t supposed to happen by accident, though history might argue it does. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found by Bedouin shepherds in the Qumran caves of Palestine. The Rosetta Stone was ...

The most outrageous action sequence in the new blockbuster Furious Seven ends with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker plowing a car through a platoon of clay figures that look just like China’s Terracotta ...

A local tourist apparently suffering from a “mental illness” caused chaos and destruction at the Terracotta Army Museum in X’ian, China, damaging several ancient statues of a Chinese ruler, Ancient ...