When the first emperor of unified China, Chin Shi Huangdi, felt his death approaching, he decreed that his tomb be protected by an army of terracotta soldiers. In 1974 archaeologists discovered the first of more than 8,000 life-size terracotta warriors, buried circa 220 B.C.E., near this emperors pyramid tomb. Maurice Cotterell decodes the message concealed in the terracotta warriors--a message that reveals the true purpose of life and the imperishable nature of the soul.
