Archaeologists in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, began to Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum of the second round of excavations of mass graves

Archaeologists in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, began to Qin Shi Huang (259-210 BC) tomb excavation of mass graves in the second round.

Burial pit, encoding K9901, is one of 180 tombs graves. A March 1999 excavation of the last round produced a huge bronze cooking vessels and terracotta figurines 11 on their upper body exposed.

Cao Wei, deputy head of Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum, said that the pit is unique, because there is no armor warriors may acrobatics.

Friday's launch of a new round of digging, because the previous excavation covered only 700 square meters less than ten percent of the pit, not enough to give a complete picture of the structure, Zhang said the satellite, the archaeological team captain.

Since 1974, archaeologists excavated more than 30 Chinese emperor, Shi Huang Mausoleum Pei Zangkeng unified China. More than 7,000 life size terracotta army was first discovered in 1974, the Web site. The tomb was built in later declared national heritage and world heritage sites.

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