China's First Emperor

China’s First Emperor: Man and the Empire for all Eternity
by Dr. Nancy S. Steinhardt
Examine the funerary world of the First Emperor, who in death broke with the millennial-old precedent of sacrificial burial and instead had thousands of life-size clay warriors accompany him into the afterlife.

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