Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Discovery In China

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Scientists have made an amazing discovery in Xi’an China They dug up a whole underground city filled with these terracotta soldiers and they haven’t t even discovered half of it! If you’ve ever had grandparents or aunts and uncles go to Xi’an China, chances are they might have been walking over a whole tomb filled with thousands of these soldiers. In 1974, while some farmers were digging really far down they discovered something they found a terracotta soldier soon they discovered they had found a tomb surrounded by thousands of terracotta soldiers. The tomb is Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s, he was an emperor who ruled china

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