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The Secret Codes of the Terracotta Warriors

By Maurice Cotterell

That cold crisp day, in the spring of 1974, is one the people of Lintong province will never forget.

For a brief split second the vaporised breath of three young farmers was all that remained of the men who moments earlier had toiled together.
It seemed that the field, two miles from Xiyang, had swallowed them up, together with the drill, the tripod and several wooden buckets, that were to provide – once they had recovered from the shock of the fall – a means of escape.

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They had tumbled into an ancient passageway, which collapsed around them, sending clouds of dust bellowing high into the sky above. As it cleared, they found themselves surrounded by an army of warriors in full battledress; a life-size army of terracotta soldiers that gazed, expressionless, at the unexpected intruders.

Within hours archaeologists, from the nearby town of Yanzhai, arrived to seal the site from prying eyes.
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