No doubt thou­sands of stat­ues still remain to be unearthed at this archae­o­log­i­cal site, which was not dis­cov­ered until 1974. Qin (d. 210 B.C.), the first uni­fi­er of Chi­na, is buried, sur­round­ed by the famous ter­ra­cot­ta war­riors, at the cen­tre of a com­plex designed to mir­ror the urban plan of the cap­i­tal, Xianyan. The small fig­ures are all dif­fer­ent, with their hors­es, char­i­ots and weapons, they are mas­ter­pieces of real­ism and also of great his­tor­i­cal inter­est.