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An Army of 8,000 Soldiers — Buried for 2,000 Years

In 1974, a farmer digging a well in rural China found a piece of clay. What followed was one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in human history — a life-size terracotta army of over 8,000 individually sculpted soldiers, buried to guard the tomb of the first Emperor of China. No two faces are the same.

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