Life-Sized Replicas of Terracotta Soldiers in the Engineering Library

In celebration of its 10^th anniversary, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Confucius Institute has “stationed” life-sized replicas of two life-sized  figures in the Engineering Library. The Terracotta Army 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. For centuries, occasional reports mentioned pieces of terracotta figures and fragments of the Qin necropolis – roofing tiles, bricks and chunks of masonry. This discovery prompted Chinese archaeologists to investigate, revealing the largest pottery figurine group ever found in China. Be sure to stop by and see the replicas in the Engineering Library.