Chinese terracotta warriors on display at Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, May 23, 2025. The new exhibit, “World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century!” explores China’s early history through recent archaeological finds from Shaanxi Province. The museum display goes from Shimao around 2300 BCE—among the earliest walled cities in China—to the Shang and Zhou eras, ending with the Terracotta Warriors commissioned by the Qin emperor and completed after his death in 210 BCE. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A chariot from the ‘Terracotta Army’. Tomb of Shi Huangdi, 259-210 BCE, Shaanxi Province, China, on display at Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, May 23, 2025. The new exhibit, “World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century!” explores China’s early history through recent archaeological finds from Shaanxi Province. The museum display goes from Shimao around 2300 BCE—among the earliest walled cities in China—to the Shang and Zhou eras, ending with the Terracotta Warriors commissioned by the Qin emperor and completed after his death in 210 BCE. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Chinese terracotta warriors on display at Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, May 23, 2025. The new exhibit, “World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century!” explores China’s early history through recent archaeological finds from Shaanxi Province. The museum display goes from Shimao around 2300 BCE—among the earliest walled cities in China—to the Shang and Zhou eras, ending with the Terracotta Warriors commissioned by the Qin emperor and completed after his death in 210 BCE. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Bowers Museum Chief Curator Tianlong Jiao, right, and Li Gang, Director of the Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum Museum, show off the multimedia part of their new terracotta warrior exhibit on display at Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, May 23, 2025. They explained there is a hole on his index finger and people believe this figure was spinning a plate socketed with a peg. They said the art of plate spinning is still practiced in China today. The new exhibit, “World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century!” explores China’s early history through recent archaeological finds from Shaanxi Province. The museum display goes from Shimao around 2300 BCE—among the earliest walled cities in China—to the Shang and Zhou eras, ending with the Terracotta Warriors commissioned by the Qin emperor and completed after his death in 210 BCE. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Chinese terracotta warriors on display at Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, May 23, 2025. The new exhibit, “World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century!” explores China’s early history through recent archaeological finds from Shaanxi Province. The museum display goes from Shimao around 2300 BCE—among the earliest walled cities in China—to the Shang and Zhou eras, ending with the Terracotta Warriors commissioned by the Qin emperor and completed after his death in 210 BCE. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Detail of a chariot from the ‘Terracotta Army’. Tomb of Shi Huangdi, 259-210 BCE, Shaanxi Province, China, on display at Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, May 23, 2025. The new exhibit, “World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century!” explores China’s early history through recent archaeological finds from Shaanxi Province. The museum display goes from Shimao around 2300 BCE—among the earliest walled cities in China—to the Shang and Zhou eras, ending with the Terracotta Warriors commissioned by the Qin emperor and completed after his death in 210 BCE. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Detail of a chariot from the ‘Terracotta Army’. Tomb of Shi Huangdi, 259-210 BCE, Shaanxi Province, China, on display at Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, May 23, 2025. The new exhibit, “World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century!” explores China’s early history through recent archaeological finds from Shaanxi Province. The museum display goes from Shimao around 2300 BCE—among the earliest walled cities in China—to the Shang and Zhou eras, ending with the Terracotta Warriors commissioned by the Qin emperor and completed after his death in 210 BCE. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Chinese terracotta warriors include detail on the bottom of their shoes on display at Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, May 23, 2025. The new exhibit, “World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century!” explores China’s early history through recent archaeological finds from Shaanxi Province. The museum display goes from Shimao around 2300 BCE—among the earliest walled cities in China—to the Shang and Zhou eras, ending with the Terracotta Warriors commissioned by the Qin emperor and completed after his death in 210 BCE. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Visitors to a media preview examine a stone from 2300-1800 BCE that was excavated from Shimao, China in 2018 while on display at Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, May 23, 2025. The new exhibit, “World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century!” explores China’s early history through recent archaeological finds from Shaanxi Province. The museum display goes from Shimao around 2300 BCE—among the earliest walled cities in China—to the Shang and Zhou eras, ending with the Terracotta Warriors commissioned by the Qin emperor and completed after his death in 210 BCE. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Chinese terracotta warriors on display at Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, May 23, 2025. The new exhibit, “World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century!” explores China’s early history through recent archaeological finds from Shaanxi Province. The museum display goes from Shimao around 2300 BCE—among the earliest walled cities in China—to the Shang and Zhou eras, ending with the Terracotta Warriors commissioned by the Qin emperor and completed after his death in 210 BCE. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Chinese terracotta warriors on display at Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, May 23, 2025. The new exhibit, “World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century!” explores China’s early history through recent archaeological finds from Shaanxi Province. The museum display goes from Shimao around 2300 BCE—among the earliest walled cities in China—to the Shang and Zhou eras, ending with the Terracotta Warriors commissioned by the Qin emperor and completed after his death in 210 BCE. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Visitors to a media preview examine Chinese terracotta warriors on display at Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, May 23, 2025. The new exhibit, “World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century!” explores China’s early history through recent archaeological finds from Shaanxi Province. The museum display goes from Shimao around 2300 BCE—among the earliest walled cities in China—to the Shang and Zhou eras, ending with the Terracotta Warriors commissioned by the Qin emperor and completed after his death in 210 BCE. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Bowers Museum Chief Curator Tianlong Jiao, left, and Li Gang, Director of the Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum Museum, talk about the terracotta figure of an entertainer, left, on display at Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, May 23, 2025. They explained there is a hole on his index finger and people believe this figure was spinning a plate socketed with a peg. They said the art of plate spinning is still practiced in China today. The new exhibit, “World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century!” explores China’s early history through recent archaeological finds from Shaanxi Province. The museum display goes from Shimao around 2300 BCE—among the earliest walled cities in China—to the Shang and Zhou eras, ending with the Terracotta Warriors commissioned by the Qin emperor and completed after his death in 210 BCE. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Bowers Museum Chief Curator Tianlong Jiao shows off a section their new terracotta warrior exhibit that explains the excavation process on display at Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, May 23, 2025. The new exhibit, “World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century!” explores China’s early history through recent archaeological finds from Shaanxi Province. The museum display goes from Shimao around 2300 BCE—among the earliest walled cities in China—to the Shang and Zhou eras, ending with the Terracotta Warriors commissioned by the Qin emperor and completed after his death in 210 BCE. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
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