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Over two thousand years ago the great Qin Shi Huang became the first emperor to unify an identifiable China - in fact it is from his name that the word 'China' is derived. The Terracotta Warriors, an entire army of life size figures, modelled on his actual soldiers at the time, was created to protect him on his journey to the next world. Forgotten by time and lost to earth this funerary extravagance lay undisturbed until its discovery in 1974 by a peasant digging for carrots in the fields near Xian. The Oriental Caravan was recently given unprecedented access to photograph within the museum that has since grown up around that find.
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