The terracotta army of China’s first emperor
In 1974, not far from the city of Xi’an in Shaanxi Province, peasants digging a well suddenly came across fragments of some pottery, and then – on the shoulders of a statue made of fired clay.
Thus, after two millennia, about 8 thousand statues of warriors who accompanied Emperor Qin Shihuangdi, who united then China with fire and sword and became its first ruler, returned to our world
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