Chinanews, Xi’an, October 24 – According to the calculations of archeologists, it took about 10 years to make such a huge legion of Terracotta Warriors in the Mausoleum of the Qinshihuang Emperor, as there have been no records of the making of Terracotta Warriors left in history.There would have been 4 Terracotta Warrior pits instead of 3 in the mausoleum if the peasants had not started uprising against the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty (221 BC – 206 BC). Archeologists believe that the building of Terracotta Warrior pits should have come to an end by 209 BC, while the whole mausoleum project was launched in 221 BC. The weapons of the Terracotta Warriors are confirmed to have been forged before 228 BC.Besides, it is impossible for Qin to start such a huge project before it had unified the whole country, as it consumed 8,000–odd cubic meters of good-quality pine wood from Sichuan and Hubei provinces. More than 126,900 cubic meters of earth had been dug out to form the main part of the mausoleum. It took thousands of workers ten years to complete the mausoleum.Currently, 8,099 Terracotta Warriors have been unearthed from the 3 pits, including 3 Terracotta Generals, 600-plus Terracotta Horses, 100-odd chariots and hundreds of thousands of weapons. 7,030 of them were found in the No.1 pit, while there are only 68 Terracotta Warriors in the No.3 pit.Averagely, a Terracotta Warrior is 180 cm tall and 150 kg in weight. Thus they should have been made somewhere near the mausoleum.As the color of the Terracotta Warriors implies, soldiers at that time usually wore green, red violet or blue jackets and green trousers. Mostly the collars and cuffs of their jackets were decorated with colorful laces.