Extremely detailed and incredibly well preserved, the stone figures have captivated museum visitors for 50 years. In 2008 and 2011, Bowers Museum featured Terracotta warriors exhibitions and now ...

Some of the material is newly discovered in the last few years and is just starting to be analyzed, including newly unearthed terracotta figures that aren’t warriors but instead represent the ...

A mentally ill tourist in Xi’an damaged two of China’s iconic terracotta warriors after jumping into a protected excavation pit at the historic site.

The figures were unearthed less than a mile ... 1 of 9 KneadingThe terra-cotta warriors were made from earth sourced around the burial sight. First, workers would knead the clay until it was ...

This one shard led to more pieces, which led to even more, until thousands of terracotta warriors were unearthed. Archaeologists estimate that there are some 8,000 figures in all, though there ...

During the visit, he scaled a fence and protective net surrounding a 18 feet pit containing terracotta warriors ... of more than 8,000 life-sized clay figures, as well as hundreds of horses ...