Chinese Again Digging for Pottery Warriors
From Reuters
PEKING —
Digging has resumed after more than four years at the burial site of China’s first emperor where 714 life-size terra-cotta warriors and horses have been unearthed, the New China News Agency said Tuesday.
The agency said 8,000 pottery figures should eventually be uncovered at the site northeast of Xian in north-central China, where they guarded the tomb of Qinshihuang, who died in 207 BC. Excavation was halted in 1981 to allow site-protection and restoration work to go ahead.
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