Displays readied
Pictures showing the site of the buried army of Qin Shihuang are erected at the Robert McDougall Art Gallery in preparation for an exhibition featuring horses, warriors and weapons from the world-famous buried army exhibition.
The exhibitions officer at the gallery, Mr Roger
Smith (left), is helped by an exhibitions assistant, Mr Trevor Cattermole. Qin Shihuang was the first emperor of China. An army of 750 life-
size terracotta soldiers was unearthed from, his tomb outside Xi’an in the Shaanxi Province ’in what has been described as the greatest archaeological find of the century. The exhibition, which has been travelling the world, will open at the gallery on October 25.
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Press, 16 October 1986, Page 8
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