The Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang has always fascinated me. Buried with the Chinese emperor in 210–209 BCE, the entire clay army consisted of some “8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and 150 cavalry horses”, according to Wikipedia, manufactured by about 700,000 workers. Can you imagine being among the farmers that just happened upon this buried necropolis in 1974? Hacking up some land and discovering a massive city of life-sized clay statues? Seeing them in their pits must have been so uncanny.…
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