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Catalogue >Oriental Art >  The Qin Terracotta Army - Treasures of Lintong The Qin Terracotta Army - Treasures of Lintong Zhang Wenli Illustrated throughout in colour with with detailed captions, this book provides a significant overview and understanding of this major discovery unearthed by chance in 1974. 96 pages, 120 colour illustrations, cloth, 274 x 196mm ISBN 0 85667 450 8 | Retail price £19.95 Unfortunately this book is now out of print.  Online price: £14.00 / €21.00 Lintong was the burial ground of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor to unify China in a series of bloody wars from 246 BC to 221BC. Subsequently he laid the groundwork, on strictly Confucian principles, for the following government of China, even though his own dynasty barely outlasted his death in 210BC. 700,000 convicts worked in the tomb for 38 years, even after the Emperor's death. The aim was to build a complete army of warriors and horses in terracotta to serve the Emperor in the underworld after his death. The scale of the enterprise was staggering. Spreading out of the central burial mound at the foot of the Lishan mountains, over 7,000 terracotta soldiers and horses, and countless bronzes, have already been discovered. Zhang Wenli is a Director at the Terracotta Museum, Lintong, and is author of several titles relating to Qin Shi Huang and the Qin dynasty.