The world’s most shocking archaeological discovery of all time - The Terracotta Army were found by a group of peasants while digging a well in Shaanxi province in north-west of China in March 1974. What they uncovered from the earth were fragments of a clay figure that led to the discovery of the an extraordinary treasure of an entire army of life-size terracotta soldiers and horses concealed underground for more than 2000 years. It turned out to be one of the greatest archaeological findings in modern times.