Cosmic rays could unearth secrets of Terracotta Army tomb
For more than 2,000 years, the secrets of the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, were guarded by his Terracotta Army. But thanks to cutting-edge cosmic ray technology, archaeologists could soon discover what treasures were buried alongside him.
The massive burial site, located in the northwest city of Xi’an, covers an area nearly 70 times the size of the Forbidden City. It took nearly four decades and hundreds of thousands of labourers to complete but has never been fully excavated.
Buried in this extensive necropolis is the Terracotta Army, a collection of thousands of sculptures depicting the first Qin army, built to protect the emperor in the afterlife.
Beijing has said it would not unearth the inner chambers of the Unesco world
