On Saturday we took a flight from Beijing to Xi'an, the next stop on our vacation. In Xi'an they have the Terracotta Army. They were built by Emperor Qin in about 200 BC to guard his tomb (he was the first Emperor of China). They were underground, they were discovered by a farmer who was attempting to dig a well in 1974. They were buried for 2200 years before being discovered. They we in pieces and have been put back together.
Each warrior has a different face, none of them are the same.
There are about 6,000 warriors in this pit, that have been fixed.
This is how they found them, in pieces. They said each one took about a year to put back together.
These were the only warriors that were not broken, because they sat lower than the rest of them.
It was amazing to see! Makes you wonder what else is buried out there!
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