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Postcards from Xi'an, pt. 2

Here are some shots from the Terracotta Warriors excavation/display about an hour outside Xi'an. If I remember correctly, they estimate that there are around 6,000 clay soldiers, no two of which are identical. They guard the tomb of the first emperor of China, Qin, from which we get the Western name for the country: "Chin-a." The tomb itself is about a kilometer away underneath a hill. Archeologists believe that the soldiers are in an actual battle formation from the era, around 2,000 years ago. There are two smaller excavations near this large pit. They're still digging out and cleaning up parts of the army.