Guide to China
Must See China
- Army of Terracotta Warriors (Bingmayong)
- Cloud Ridge Caves
- Forbidden City
- Grand Buddha
- Great Wall
- Jiuzhaigou
- Karakoram Highway
- Nanjing
- Summer Palace
- Tai Shan
- Xi'an
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Ranking up there with the Great Wall and the Forbidden City as one of China's top historical sights, the 2000-year-old Army 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: an underground vault of earth and timber that eventually yielded thousands of life-size terracotta soldiers and their horses in battle formation. In 1976 two other smaller vaults were discovered close to the first one.
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