They stood alert and ready to defend their emperor, some 8,000 strong in row upon row, for more than 2,000 years. They were generals and archers, infantrymen and cavalrymen and broad-backed horses ...

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China’s Terracotta Warriors is all about these ancient Chinese objects from the Qin dynasty (221-206 BCE). It features ten life-size terracotta figures along with 110 rare objects found from ...