by Christa Galloway | Mar 29, 2022 | Ancient China
According to Chinese legend, a monster named Nian (which means year) used to attack a village and eat people at the beginning of the year. Every year, the villagers fled to avoid being eaten, until they learned the beast could be frightened away by loud noises, bright...
by Christa Galloway | Mar 8, 2022 | Ancient China
The terracotta army is a bit like an enormous 3-D puzzle, made up of fragments of 8,000 life-size clay figures. When the terracotta warriors were discovered, many had been smashed and archaeologists and restorers spent months, or even years, on each figure, finding...
