The back of the kneeling archer still has some of it original red color.
This soldier is probably in an air-tight glass container becaue it still has it's color. Scientists still haven't found a way to preserve the color of the warriors and that is why many have yet to be unearthed. All of then were painted.
This is how many of the warriors were discovered.
During the peasants' revolt, most of the real weapons were stoled because the area was not yet being guarded.
Horses at the repair station. Notice that there is a hole where their tails should be. They too are hollow. This is were the steam could escape when they were being fired.
Front view of the horses being repaired.
This is one of the ramps that was used to cart the terracotta soldiers into the pit. Although they were hollow, they were still extremely heavy.
This is the ashes left from when the original roof was burned.
This part of the roof was still intact.
Pit 3, the largest of the pits.
The soldiers were hollow and made in two pieces, the head and the rest of the body. They were made hollow so that when they were but in the kiln, they would not break.
Repair station. The original roof that protected the soldiers caught on fire and collasped on the soldiers, so a team of archeologists come in everyday to piece the horses and soldiers together. It's so unbelieveable. I don't even have the patience to do a 1,000 piece jugglesaw puzzle.
Another view of the repair station.
Solider at the repair station.
This is a diagram of a bronze chariot that was found in the pit. 
This was the largest of the pits. There are an estimate of 8,000 unique warriors altogether in all 3 pits. It's the size of several football fields.
Do you see how small the people look on the opposite side of the pit?
The Terracotta Warriors are located next to the Jaida mountains. They are full of jade. This is a solid piece of jade from these mountains. Jaida jade is said to be the hardest of all types of jade.
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