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Unearthing the Terracotta Army
In March 1974, Chinese farmers digging a well unearthed the greatest archaeological find of the century, China鈥檚 buried Terracotta Army. After coming across a life sized human head made of clay in Xi鈥檃n, China, archaeologists were called in to investigate. What they found was extraordinary. Thousands of life-like terracotta figures from the Qin dynasty, fashioned two thousand years ago to protect the First Emperor of China in the after-life.
Archaeologist Li Xiuzhen has worked on the site since the 1980s. Her team was the first to discover that each warrior was originally painted in bright colours.
