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Terra Cotta Soldiers on the March

The 1974 discovery of buried vaults at Xi'an filled with thousands of terra cotta warriors stunned the world (the figures in situ today). Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi's vast third-century B.C. necropolis, says British art historian Jane Portal, constitutes "arguably the most famous archaeological site on earth."

O. Louis Mazzatenta / NGS Image Collection

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