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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

In 1974, farmers digging for water near Xi'an unearthed the Terracotta Army, a vast collection of life-sized clay warriors ...

Authorities raiding a tourist attraction comprised of a fake terracotta army (all images by Meili Lintong via Lintong council’s Weibo) China’s Lintong District is famed for its thousands of terracotta ...