I visited Army of Terracotta Warriors and Horses (兵马俑)(Bīngmăyŏng) and the Qinshihuang Mausoleum (150 RMB). The assemblage has been selected by the tourist industry as the Eighth Wonder of the World and a world cultural heritage site by UNESCO in 1987.
It took years of a group of specialists to piece together the broken pieces into these amazing Terracotta Warriors. We can see different stages of the assembling and covered and areas they stopped and are waiting for better technology to prevent decolonization of the pieces due to oxidization from air exposure.
There is a museum and three excavated pits, covering a floorspace of 20,000 square meters and displaying 2,000 life-like terracotta warriors (there are believed to be around 8,000 in total), 100 or so chariots, and 30,000 weapons.
Qin ShiHuang Mausoleum (秦始皇陵), 2km east of the Terracotta Warriors, is a large 24 square kilometer park which contains Qin ShiHuang's mausoleum (still buried underneath a hill) and a number of pits which are undergoing excavation, higher up the mountainside. It is believed that under the site of the mausoleum an exact replica of his empire has been re-created.
I saw three paths on map.me leading to the top of the mausoleum mound, but they were blocked with warning signs of no entry.
Must give Qin ShiHuang all the credit for limiting his army to terra cotta Egyptians had people slain to guard them and serve them in the afterlife.
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