At least 20 additional terracotta warriors have been discovered by archaeologists in a pit next to the secret tomb of China’s first emperor, east of the city of Xi’an.
The figures of the warriors are made in life size, and are estimated to have been made to protect China’s first emperor in the “afterlife”.
The clay army is believed to consist of a total of 8,000 warriors located in a total of three pits about a mile northeast of the mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang (259 BC to 210 BC), who proceeded with the unification of China in 221 BC.
To date, archaeologists have found about 2,000 of these warriors, who were buried with weapons such as crossbows, spears and swords, some of which are still intact.
The figures found, however, are in poor condition, and experts at the Emperor Mausoleum Museum are set to restore them, according to the China Global Television Network (CGTN).
The terracotta (or clay army) army is located in the mausoleum of the first Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang, east of the city of Xian in China. Qin Shi Huang proclaimed himself emperor in 221 BC. after he managed to subdue six warring states and unite China. According to the historian Sima Qian (145-90 BC), the construction of the mausoleum, which was completed by 700,000 people, began in 246 BC, when Emperor Qin Shi Huang was just 13 years old.
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