Why are the Terracotta Warriors in pieces? A Thousand-Year-Old Mystery of the Underground Legion Revealed In 1974, Shaanxi farmers drilling a well discovered the world-shattering Terracotta Army. When archaeologists opened the underground palace, they saw colorful ceramic pieces all over the ground – the original majestic terracotta soldiers had almost all turned into fragments. Why … Continue reading Why were the terracotta soldiers broken?