Exterior of the Terracotta Warriors Museum. The Terracotta Army of the first Emperor of China. Xi'an,

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Exterior of the Terracotta Warriors Museum. The Terracotta Army or the "Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses", is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BC and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife. Numbering more than 8000, the figures, dating from 3rd century BC, were discovered in 1974 by some local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, near the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor.

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Size: 5100px × 3414px
Location: Exterior of the Terracotta Warriors Museum. The Terracotta Army of the first Emperor of China. Xi'an
Photo credit: © Robert Burch / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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Keywords: army, asia, china, emperor, horses, huang, lintong, mausoleum, qin, shaanxi, shi, soldiers, terracotta, tomb, warriors, xi, xian