The tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, remains a mystery to this day, despite the discovery of its adjacent ...

The “Greekness” of the Terracotta Army went viral, but archaeologists in China were skeptical of the influence of Greek art.

Half a century ago, farmers digging a simple well in China’s Shaanxi province struck something that later astonished the world—a clay soldier standing guard in silence. That lone statue turned out to ...

History becomes legend. Legend becomes myth. At best, historians hope that at least a kernel of truth lingers lost among centuries’ worth of embellishment, propaganda, and hype. But the gap between ...