Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum, the new opening in northwest China

Museum of Terracotta Warriors and Horses, a new statue of the emperor (259-210 BC) tomb discovered in northwest China is expected to open in October in Shaanxi Province.

 

The museum covers an area of ​​mass graves code K9901 will allow visitors to view the work of excavation pits, said Wei, vice Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum, the first Monday.

 

The pit is one of 180 tombs Peizang Keng. A March 1999 excavation of the last round produced a huge bronze cooking vessels and terracotta figurines 11 on their upper body exposed.

 

Wei said to be unique, because there is no pits can be warriors armor acrobatics.

 

Archaeologists began digging Friday's second round, because the previous excavations covers only 700 square meters less than ten percent of the pit, not enough to give a full picture of the structure.

 

After the completion of the new museum, the excavation will continue in much the same way as it did when the first tomb was discovered buried in pits, Cao said.

 

The well will be open to the public, in the excavation process, according to Cao.

 

Qin Shi Huang, known as China's first emperor. More than 7,000 life-size terracotta statues of terracotta army was found to describe his tomb in 1974. The tomb was built in later declared national heritage and world heritage sites.