Word: cotta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, farmers digging a well in a cornfield near the Yellow River in China's Shaanxi province came upon a pottery figure. Subsequent organized digging uncovered an amazing archaeological find: a magnificent buried army of life-sized terra cotta soldiers, rank on rank, some 7,000 strong-charioteers behind chariots and horses, mounted cavalrymen, kneeling archers, thousands of spearmen, each individually sculptured and fully detailed. Scholars determined that the terra cotta army was commissioned by Qin Shihuangdi, the first Emperor of China, as a guard for his tomb, which lies nearly a mile to the west...
...horses went on view at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of its newest exhibit, "Treasures from the Bronze Age of China," which will later go to Chicago, Fort Worth, Los Angeles and Boston. "Age" is the key word, since the terra cotta figures are obviously not bronze; chronologically, though, they do belong to the period, albeit its very end. The public will be grateful that the dramatic figures were included-even if they were not absolutely needed. For the show has bronzes enough to dazzle anyone. In fact, it is a far more impressive...