Xian Vacations

Thousands of years ago, Xian was the most important city in China. The Silk Road, of Marco Polo fame, would west from here to the Mediterranean and beyond. Emperor Qin, who ruled from Xian in the third century B.C., had an army of more than 8,000 terra-cotta warriors and horses buried with him to protect his empire after his earthly death. They were discovered accidentally in 1974 by workers digging a well.