Discovered in 1974 by farmers digging a well near Xi’an, the Terracotta Army shook the world. Buried for over 2,000 years, thousands of life-sized warriors, horses, and chariots emerged from the earth, silent, staring, ready for battle in the afterlife. Each figure is hand-molded. Each face is unique. They stood guard over the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of a unified China. But they also stood as a ‘monument to belief’, not just in the afterlife, but in the power
