The Mystery of the Terracotta Warriors‘ Height: Why Were the Elite Soldiers of the Qin Dynasty Taller Than Modern People? In 1974, several farmers in Shaanxi Province unearthed broken pottery shards while digging a well. Little did they know that this discovery would lead to the uncovering of over 8,000 life-sized terracotta soldiers from the … Continue reading What is the average size of the roughly 8000 soldiers of the Terracotta Army?