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The terra-cotta warriors were constructed in the third century B.C.E. (Zossolino via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0)

Archaeologists Discover Rare Clay Commander Among Thousands of Life-Size Terra-Cotta Soldiers in China

The 2,000-year-old military general figurine is the tenth of its kind to be excavated from the emperor Qin Shi Huang's tomb, which may hold up to 8,000 clay statues
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