At the Metropolitan Museum, a treasure trove from China
Six years ago, farmers digging a well in a cornfield near the Yellow River in China's Shaanxi province came upon a pottery figure. Subsequent organized digging uncovered an amazing archaeological find: a magnificent buried army of life-sized terra cotta soldiers, rank on rank, some 7,000 strongcharioteers behind chariots and horses, mounted cavalrymen, kneeling archers, thousands of spearmen, each individually sculptured and fully detailed. Scholars determined that the terra cotta army was commissioned by Qin Shihuangdi, the first Emperor of China, as a guard for...
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