🌟 World Heritage 🌟
The “Terracotta Army” is a #collection of statues depicting 8.000 armed warriors and 100 terracotta horses also featuring 18 wooden chariots.

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They were built to be placed inside the monumental tomb of the first Chinese emperor – dating back to the 3rd century BC – to protect him in the afterlife.

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‣ The reproduced army represents the one that really contributed to the unification of #China. The fidelity and accuracy of the sculptures is due to the size and tricks of truthfulness that were inspired by Hellenistic art following the conquests in Asia of Alexander the Great

‣ The #discovery of the entire mausoleum and its treasures, including the statues of the soldiers, is quite recent, dating back in fact only to 1974 and is thanks to a farmer who came across it by chance during the excavation of a well

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⇒ Date: 260 a.C. – 210 a.C.

⇒ Material: Terracotta and Bronze

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