The monochrome figures that visitors to Xian’s terra-cotta army museum see today actually began as the multicolored fantasy of a ruler whose grandiose ambitions extended beyond the mortal realm.

The Terracotta Army was discovered in 1974 during the construction ... an army of thousands of life-size clay figurines located across three pits, dating back to the third century B.C. Related ...

The Terracotta Warriors are an army of around 9,000 soldiers, 130 chariots, 520 horses, and 150 cavalry figures, entirely made of baked clay or terracotta. They are a form of funerary art buried ...

On March 29, 1974, a group of Chinese farmers digging a well struck fragments of terra-cotta buried underground; ...