China's Terra Cota Warriors are coming to the Houston Museum of Natural Science in what promises to be an amazing exhibit. I can't wait - opens May 22, 2009!
One day I hope to make it to Xi'an to see site where the warriors were found and the collection of the Museum of the Terra-Cotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang.
Thousands of terra cotta soldiers guarded China's First Emperor Qin Shihuangdi since the 3rd century B.C. Amazingly, they stood forgotten until 1974 when farmers digging outside the walls of the Emperor's tomb complex stumbled into them.
See more photos by Wang Da-Gang in the HMNS photo gallery:
http://www.hmns.org/exhibits/special_exhibits/terra_cotta/tc_photo_gallery.asp
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