L'Armée de terre cuite du premier empereur de Chine, découvert par les fermiers locaux à Lintong District, Xi'an, .

• Contributeur: Robert Burch / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: GGRX2G
• Taille du fichier: 49,8 MB (2,2 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 5100 x 3414 px | 43,2 x 28,9 cm | 17 x 11,4 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 2009
• Lieu: The Terracotta Army of the first Emperor of China, discovered by local farmers in Lintong District,

Informations supplémentaires

The Terracotta Army or the "Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses", is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BC and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife. Numbering more than 8000, the figures, dating from 3rd century BC, were discovered in 1974 by some local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, near the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor. Pit one, which is 230 meters long and 62 meters wide, contains the main army of more than 6, 000 figures.

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