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Terracotta Warriors
Can anyone give me any information about the Terracotta Warriors?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.They were a funerary army built for chin Shi-Huang the first chin emperor of all china. His tomb complex is probably one of the most stunning archeological finds in history. See sites like:
http://www.furman.edu/engaged/inted/StudyAbroad/Ch
ina/zhongguo/terracotta.html for details.
ina/zhongguo/terracotta.html for details.
Having been there several years ago I can recommend a visit.
I was given the following background to the story (obviously having been a tourist it was embellished a little)
Normally when an Emperor died his loyal army was sacrificed so that they could protect him in the afterlife.
Either the Emperor was a bit more of a humanitarian than the previous ones or else he realised that his army didn't really fancy the idea. He decided to commision a life-like image of every one of his soldiers.
The result is only done justice if you can visit the site itself.