Entombed for Over 2000 Years, Warriors of China’s First Emperor, Arrive in Sydney

SYDNEY.- The First Emperor: China’s entombed warriors brings to Sydney one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of our time. Australia was the first country outside China to see these figures in the exhibition Qin Shihuang: Terracotta warriors and horses in Sydney in early 1983. It is therefore fitting that the Art Gallery of New South Wales should organise their return in an exhibition presenting over 120 objects, with 10 of the world-renowned warriors and horses, and significant recent finds from the First Emperor’s mausoleum located in the province of Xi’an, central China. •‘You think that the China of 2000 years ago is long dead and buried? Far from it. Every day, as the archaeologists toil away around the burial mound of one of the most remarkable figures in the history of China – The First Emperor – new finds and moments of the wealth of China’s ancient past are re

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