Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (1987)

Standing at the northern foot of Lishan Hill, Lintong District, Xi’an City, the Mausoleum was built from BC 246 to BC 208, with an existing tomb mound 40m high. The layout of the mausoleum imitates Xianyang, the contemporary capital of Qin, to be divided into two walls of internal one and external one, with the circumference of the internal wall 2.5km long in length and that of the external one 6.3km in length. Nestled on the eastern side of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, the vault of worriers and horses is a large-scale funeral vault of the Qin Mausoleum, and was found in 1974. So far there are four vaults having been excavated, with a total area of over 25,000m2, which affords to bury a great amount of terracotta color-decoration worriers and horses at their life sizes that were used in then actual battles. The cultural relics unearthed amount to ten thousand pieces. In 1987 it was enlisted in the “World Cultural Heritage List”.