Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Finds -- 3: The Terracotta Army & the Tomb of Qin
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Ancient Chinese Artifacts and Fragments
In march 19 74, a local chinese farmer named yang jifa and his brothers and a neighbor began digging a well on a piece of land about a mile east of the chin necropolis complex. As they pulled earth up out of this makeshift pit, they started turning up small bronze arrow heads, which was not too uncommon to find around ancient sites of settlement around china. And then also fragments of sculpture, what seemed to be pieces of some sort of sculptured figures or figurins. Some antiquarians noticed that these items seemed particularly old and might reflect the style of chin orhan era from two thousand or more years ago.
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