Tags: World Heritage Site.
The Terracotta Army or the Terracotta 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.The figures dating from approximately the late third century BC were discovered in 1974 by local farmers in Lintong District Xi’an Shaanxi province.
