Over 100 brightly colored terracotta warriors have emerged from the Chinese site of the Terracotta Army in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province state media said on Wednesday.   
 
Lying alongside various artifacts, such as pots, weapons and chariots, the clay figures have been unearthed at Pit 1, the largest of the three pits at the vast mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, China’s first emperor. 
 
Considered an “Eighth Wonder of the World”, the Terracotta Army was crafted more than 2,000 years ago to protect Qin Shihuang (259-210 B. C. ) in the afterlife. 
 
Begun in June last year, the excavation has focused on a 656-square-foot patch in the main pit. 
 
It is the third dig undertaken since the site¡¯s discovery in 1974, when farmers drilling a well some 1. 2 miles from the unexcavated tomb of the emperor stumbled upon terracotta warriors and horses .