Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

Entombed for Over 2000 Years, Warriors of China’s First Emperor, Arrive in Sydney

December 2, 2010 by All Art News  
Filed under Antiques & Archaeology

SYDNEY.- The First Emperor: China’s entombed warriors brings to Sydney one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of our time. Australia was the first country outside China to see these figures in the exhibition Qin Shihuang: Terracotta warriors and horses in Sydney in early 1983. It is therefore fitting that the Art Gallery of New South Wales should organise their return in an exhibition presenting over 120 objects, with 10 of the world-renowned warriors and horses, and significant recent finds from the [...]