Terracotta Army 秦始皇兵马俑
（重定向自Terracotta Warriors and Horses）
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![The mound where the tomb is located](/Images/godic/202502/15/Tomb_of_Emperor_Qin_Shi_Huang5824.jpg")
The Terracotta Army (Chinese:兵马俑; literally: "Soldier-and-horse funerary statues") 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 and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife.