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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...