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{ 2008 06 25 }

Terracotta Soldiers

I saw the Terracotta Soldier’s Army outside of Xi’an this week.  The army consists of about 8,000 clay solders with about 1,000 of them restored to their original condition.  The others have been left how they were found; in pieces when the underground area they are kept in was burnt down by the pesents a year after the construction of the army.   The fire caused the roof to collapase in and dirt to cover all the solders.

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Posted by Mathew on Wednesday, June 25, 2008, at 12:56 pm. Filed under China, Photography. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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