WARRIOR #3: TERRACOTTA ARMY WARRIORS OF THE FIRST EMPEROR OF CHINA

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The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE with the purpose of protecting the emperor in his afterlife. The figures, dating from approximately the late third century BCE,[1] were discovered in 1974 by local farmers in Lintong County, outside Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. Estimates from 2007 were that the three pits containing the Terracotta Army held more than 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses, and 150 cavalry horses These warrior replicas are from the National Geographic scans of when several of them were on loan to the US. This STL was made from a high resolution scan of the original cast of the National Geographic ancient figurine.