Terracotta Army

Name: Terracotta Army

The Terracotta Army or otherwise known as the "Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses” is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BC and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife.

In March 1974, a group of peasants digging a well in drought-parched Shaanxi province in northwest China unearthed fragments of clay figure—the first evidence of what would turn out to be one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of modern times. 

Near the unexcavated tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi—who had proclaimed himself first emperor of China in 221 B.C.—lay an extraordinary underground treasure: an entire army of life-size terra cotta soldiers and horses, interred for more than 2,000 years.

The terracotta figures are life-sized. They vary in height, uniform and hairstyle in accordance with rank. Most originally held real weapons are spears, swords, and crossbows. The figures were also originally painted with bright pigments, variously colored in pink, red, green, blue, black, brown, white and lilac.

The artifacts offer a glimpse of the treasures that attract visitors from around the world to the Xi'an museum site, where 1,900 of an estimated 7,000 warriors have been disinterred so far.

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