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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Environmental News Network
National Geographic Magazine October 1996
Highlights From this Month's Issue
More than 2,200 years ago, China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, had an enormous army of soldiers, archers, charioteers, and horses sculpted in life-size terra-cotta to accompany him into the afterlife. Photographer O. Louis Mazzatenta reports on more than a thousand pieces that have been recently excavated in an archaeological epic in progress for decades near the city of Xian.

After 2,200 years an armored archer still scans the horizon for enemies of Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor.

Article and photographs by O. Louis Mazzatenta
 

TERRACOTTA ARMY IMAGE
 
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