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    The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures representing the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, built to protect his tomb in the afterlife. In 1974, farmers discovered the life-sized sculptures east of Xi'an, and further excavations have revealed thousands of soldiers divided into infantry, archers, cavalry, and officers across four pits. The figures were originally painted and varied in uniforms according to rank, though time has faded much of their original color and detail.

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    The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures representing the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, built to protect his tomb in the afterlife. In 1974, farmers discovered the life-sized sculptures east of Xi'an, and further excavations have revealed thousands of soldiers divided into infantry, archers, cavalry, and officers across four pits. The figures were originally painted and varied in uniforms according to rank, though time has faded much of their original color and detail.

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    The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures representing the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, built to protect his tomb in the afterlife. In 1974, farmers discovered the life-sized sculptures east of Xi'an, and further excavations have revealed thousands of soldiers divided into infantry, archers, cavalry, and officers across four pits. The figures were originally painted and varied in uniforms according to rank, though time has faded much of their original color and detail.

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    The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures

    representing the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China.
    They were built with huge ovens, so they could make the clay
    necessary for the huge warriors. Moreover, the steps were: first, fill
    the molds with clay, then they were put into the oven and finally they
    were painted in white. The Terracotta Warriors were a form of funerary
    art buried with the emperor in 210209 BCE and whose purpose was
    to protect the emperor in his afterlife.

    The Terracotta Army was discovered on 29 March 1974 to the east of


    Xian in Shaanxi, province by farmers digging a water well
    approximately 1.6 km east of the Qin Emperors tomb mound at
    Mount Li, a region underground watercourses. Then, in 1989, a group
    of archaeologists from the Social Science Academy in China,
    discovered that in a garden there were 21 huge ovens for clay
    belonging to Han Oeste, destined for the modelling of terracotta
    warriors and horses.

    The excavation site was divided into 4 zones. In the firsts pits, 7
    meters deep have been excavated, the soldiers within were laid out
    as if to protect the tomb form the east, were all the Emperors states
    lay. Pit one contains the main army of more than 6,000 figures. Pit two
    contains was chariots, Pit three high-ranking officers and war chariot
    and finally, Pit four is empty. However, there are still soldiers which
    havent been excavated yet.

    Due to the disappearance of some parts of the sculptures and the


    deterioration of them, has led to the restoration of these pieces.
    However, there are also insects, light, salts in land, plants,
    microorganisms, oxidation, humidity and other more factors than
    have damaged the sculptures of the Terracotta Warriors.

    Furthermore, these warriors were armed with different weapons which


    played supportive roles in a variety of scenarios that the combined
    strength of the army was brought into full play. The soldiers were
    divided into infantry armed with swords and spears, archers, crossbow
    archers, cavalry, chariot drivers and officers. Excavations show that
    the cavalry functioned as an independent force in battle, with chariots
    playing a vital strategic role.

    The Terracotta figures are life-sized. They vary in height, uniform and
    hairstyle according to the rank. Originally, the figures were painted
    with bright pigments. The coloured lacquer finish and individual facial
    features would have given the figures a realistic feel. However, much
    of the colour had flaked off overcome greatly faded. Some scholars
    have speculated a possible Hellenistic link to these sculptures, due to
    the lack of life-sized and realistic sculptures prior to the Qin dynasty.
    hey argued that potential Greek influence is particularly evident in
    some terracotta figures such as those of acrobats, as well as the
    technique used for casting bronze sculptures.

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