New Delhi, April 14 : A Chinese professor has theorized that the famed terracotta army of Xi'an region of the country are not soldiers, but royal servants and bodyguards.
If this theory by Liu Jiusheng at Shaanxi Normal University proves to be true, it might turn China's most important archeological discovery upside down.
Most historians believe the 2,200-year-old clay statues buried near the emperor's tomb represent an army custom-made to guard him in the afterlife.