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In 1974, a group of farmers in the Shaanxi province of China made a discovery that would rock the archaeological community forever. At first appearing to be nothing more than common clay fragments, ...

The burial mound of China’s first emperor has remained untouched since workers sealed it in 208 BC, even as the surrounding necropolis has become one of the world’s most famous archaeological sites. I ...

The terra cotta army is one of the greatest, and most famous, archaeological discoveries ever made. Over eight thousand life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the mausoleum of the ...