Today in Archaeology:
Today in 1974 – Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China.
There are more than 8,000 life-sized figures in this army, which were made and buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, in the third century BC. Pictured one of the three pits containing the figures.
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