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Article: China's terracotta warriors to visit British Museum
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- July 7, 2006
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China's terracotta warriors to visit British Museum
BEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The biggest exhibition of China's
terracotta warriors is being negotiated by the Qinshihuang Terracotta
Museum and the British Museum.
If the detailed proposals are agreed, the British Museum will hold
an exhibition of the terracotta warriors, buried with the first
Chinese emperor Qinshihuang 2,200 years ago in northwestern Shaanxi
Province, sometime next year, said Wu Yongqi, director of the
Qinshihuang Terracotta Museum.
The British Museum first showed interest in exhibiting the
terracotta warriors at the end of last year, according to Jin
Xianyong, director of the communication center of Shaanxi Cultural ...