Episode 27 The Immortal Army of Qin Shi Huang

In 1974, farmers digging a well near Xi’an in China struck something that changed history. Buried beneath the soil lay fragments of life-sized warriors, carved from terracotta. As archaeologists uncovered more, they realized they had stumbled upon an entire army—thousands of soldiers, horses, chariots—arrayed in perfect battle formation. Each face unique, each detail painstaking, as if frozen mid-march. This was the army of China’s First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, who sought to command not only in life, but in death.