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Anniversary: The Terracotta Army is Discovered — March 29, 1974

29 March 2027
Anniversary: The Terracotta Army is Discovered — March 29, 1974

On 29 March 1974, farmers digging a well during a drought near Xi’an struck fragments of a clay figure buried in the ground. What they had found, without knowing it yet, was the edge of an underground army: thousands of life-sized terracotta soldiers built to guard the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, for more than two thousand years before anyone went looking.

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