Ranking up there with the Great Wall and the Forbidden City as one of China's top historical sights, the 2200 year-old Amy of Terracotta Warriors remains stunningly well preserved: a perpetually vigilant force standing guard over an ancient imperial necropolis. In 1974, peasants digging a well uncovered what turned out to be perhaps the major archaeological discovery of the 20th century: and underground a vault of earthed and timber that eventually yielded thousands of life size terracotta soldiers and their horses in battle formation.
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