The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor of China into the afterlife, according to archaeologists. Ying Zheng took the throne ...

A giant statue of China's first emperor has fallen flat on its face - all six tonnes of it. The 19m (62ft) bronze cast of Qin Shi Huang was blown from its stone pedestal in Shandong province ...

An exceptionally rare 15th century porcelain bowl made in China that somehow turned up at a yard sale in the US state ... during the reign of the Yongle Emperor, the third ruler of the Ming ...