It's one of those things that you just have to do in China. along with the Great Wall and the Three Gorges, everyone has heard of them and everyone goes there.
They're not really very exciting but very interesting. In total they've found about 7000 lifesized statues, each with individual features and detailed clothes and hairdos indicating their rank and status. You only actually see a few hundred, the rest have been reburied as they dont have the technology to preserve the paint that provides the finishing touch to them all. still it's an impressive sight to see them ranged in battle formation. What's really interesting though is the weapons they once held (now kept in storage for unexplained reasons). When they uncovered the swords they were still bright and sharp enough to cut through a stack of 20 sheets of paper! They proved to be coated in a really really thin layer of chromium oxide, the technology for which wasnt patented until the 1930's by the Germans! But the Chinese had worked it out 2000 odd years ago!!! Amazing! They still think there are more soldiers to be found and they havent even touched the adjacent tomb of the emperor. Imagine what treasures could be found there!!! Ach it's a wonderful world.