Chinese archaeologists have unearthed 110 new terra-cotta
soldiers of the kind that stunned the world in the 1970s when
thousands of such figures were discovered at Xian in central
China, part of a tomb army built to guard China’s first emperor
in the afterlife. Agence France-Presse reported that the newly
excavated life-size warriors were found near the Qin emperor
Ying Zheng’s mausoleum over the course of three years and that
archaeologists also uncovered 12 pottery horses and parts of
chariots, as well as weapons and tools. “The most significant
discovery this time around is that the relics that were found
were well-preserved and colorfully painted,”said Shen Maosheng,
the deputy director of the archaeology department of the Qin
Shihuang Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum, which oversees
the tomb. He added that archaeologists had pinpointed the
location of another 11 warriors but had yet to unearth them.
Nine of the estimated 8,000 figures discovered in the 1970s are
on view in an exhibition “Terracotta