A rare decorated statue was uncovered among the “terracotta army” in the tomb of the ancient Chinese emperor Qin Shi […] ...
The 2,200-year-old site is a stone's throw away from the actual mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. The reason for the mass burial of the statues is not crystal clear, ...
Qin Shi Huang had work on his enormous mausoleum started early in his reign. The terracotta warriors of the “underground army” guarding the mausoleum, unearthed in 1974, amazed the world.