Terracotta Army is the first time in more than 10 years that the warriors have travelled to the UK. Terracotta Army The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE with the purpose of protecting the emperor in his afterlife. The figures, dating from approximately the late third century BCE, were discovered in 1974 by local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, People's Republic of China, Shaanxi province. The figures vary in height according to their roles,
Xiaoxing Xi Xiaoxing Xi Xiaoxing Xi (; born 1958) is a Chinese-born American physicist. He is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Physics at Temple University in Philadelphia, and was chairman of Temple's physics department. In May 2015, the United States Department of Justice arrested him on charges of having sent restricted American technology to China. In September 2015, he was completely cleared, and the charges against him dropped when independent scientists discovered that the prosecutors had misconstrued or misunderstood the evidence against him. Despite this, the US government has not paid Xi compensation in any form. Xi was born in China and