About The Army-
Warriors & horses made of clay.
The army covers about 16,300 square metres in the museum that they're kept in. With each statue averaging in height at 177.7cm tall. 720,000 people took on the job to create all of the terracotta army. The army was built to protect the first emperor Shi Haungdi (221-210 BCE) in his afterlife. The actual tomb of the emperor was really 1.5 km away from his clay army. Even though that all the sculptures were proved to be based on 10 different designs they still were all no matter what different. Each statue still remains today but they are either still un-damaged, have a limb or two missing or was completely destroyed somehow. While the Chinese were making the army people who died were buried where the army is.Where the army is and has been excavated at, there is 3 main pits. Each of these pits contains the army. In pit one there are over 1,000 warriors and 20 chariots. The army has been and is being restored for a reason that they can show us what they did to help someone like Shi Huangdi in the afterlife, how the real guards use to look like in ancient times.