Audience: General; Grades: All; Subject: World cultures. (2019) A mammoth underground mausoleum built for a single man, became a subversive slave camp for artisans. This colossal crypt is filled with thousands of molded images and likenesses of soldiers, troops, officers, musicians, horses and chariots sculpted from clay. This massive collection was formed to preserve the wealth and status of the first Qin Emperor, in his afterlife. The account of the people who made these vivid, life-like sculptures is seldom told. Discover China goes deep underground to explore the abundant pits housing the terra-cotta warriors, where countless people lost their lives to realize this ambitious Empire in the Underworld.