You might recognize these from "Mummy III" :) It's the terracotta warriors from the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. He was thirteen when he got on the throne and started building his tomb with all the clay men. He specifically said that no two soldiers were to be made alike. This is also the guy that had the Great Wall made.
You wouldn't think it, but they're actually really friendly!
There's about 3,000 army men with some chariots, cavalry, archers, and everything all lined up in battle formation to guard his tomb.
Some farmer found the army about 35 years ago when he was digging for a well. And guess what! The farmer guy was there the day we went to see them. We could "shake his hand to get some lucky." :)
All the warriors were holding weapons that still had poison on them when they were discovered, but some overzealous archeologists took off with them right away. So all of the army guys have their hands holding onto imaginary spears and swords.
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