Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
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How it came to be
Ying Zheng began work on his tomb soon after taking the throne of Qin in 246 BC, aged 13. After he unified China in 221 BC as the First Emperor, construction expanded, and the historian Sima Qian wrote that 700,000 men were sent to work there.
In March 1974 farmers digging a well in Xiyang village found fragments of clay soldiers. Excavations have since revealed about 7,000 terracotta warriors and horses and around 100 wooden chariots, while the 76-metre burial mound itself remains unopened.
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