Terracotta Army
Life-sized army of some 8,000 individually detailed clay soldiers, horses and chariots buried to guard China's first emperor in death, part of a vast unexcavated necropolis near Xi'an; accidentally discovered by farmers digging a well in 1974, over two thousand years after it was sealed.
Dated events and their evidence
- 210 BCE mainstream
burial complex completed around the emperor's death source - 1974 CE mainstream
accidental discovery by local farmers source
Where
34.3817° N, 109.2739° E
Sources
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-018-0239-5
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_the_First_Qin_Emperor
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