The 'Terracotta Warriors'

Back in about 220 BCE, Emperor Qin decided he needed a durable army to protect himself in the afterlife. The "Terracotta Warriors" were the result: there are over 8,800 life size individual replicas of his army. Stored in a large wooden structure covered in an earth mound, they were only discovered in 1974, by which time the structure had long collapsed. It now is a major archaeology site, covered in a giant aircraft hangar style building, and visited by huge numbers of people. It was high on my "bucket list" of things to see in China. View large.