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On a day like this 39 years ago… serendipity and the Terracotta Army
On 29 March 1974, a group of farmers digging a water well in
Lintong, to the east of Xi’an, struck upon one of the greatest archaeological
discoveries of all time. The Terracotta Army would become the icon of the 2,200
year-old city-like mausoleum of China’s First Emperor. A further four decades
since its discovery, have we learned anything about serendipity?
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Published: Apr 2, 2013 11:47:00 AM
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Imperial Logistics: The Making of the Terracotta Army
c/o Marcos Martinon-Torres
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University College London
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Imperial Logistics: The Making of
the Terracotta Army
UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY UK
+44 (0) 20 7679 7496 · terracotta-army@ucl.ac.uk
