New campaigns for terracotta army

XI'AN: The public will get to see even more history uncovered in the next three years as additional excavations for terracotta warriors and other artifacts are opened and made public, the Qin Shihuang Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum has revealed.

"There are more than 600 burial pit ruins around the Mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shihuang and we plan to open some ruins - such as a pit with civil official figurines, a pit with opera acting figurines, a pit with bronze chariots and horses, a pit with water bird figurines and a pit with stone armor in the next three years," said Tian Jing, deputy director of the museum.

The excavations mentioned had been partially explored but reburied to protect the artifacts until they could be properly unearthed and opened to the public after technology had improved, said Tian.