{"id":4943,"date":"2026-03-19T02:16:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T02:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/how-the-terracotta-army-was-discovered-bbc-world-service-shorts\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T02:16:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T02:16:56","slug":"how-the-terracotta-army-was-discovered-bbc-world-service-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/how-the-terracotta-army-was-discovered-bbc-world-service-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Terracotta Army was discovered &#8211; BBC World Service #shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zhuLR_vXSOk?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>It&#8217;s 50 years since a group of farmers in China stumbled upon the one of the greatest archeological finds of the 20th Century. <\/p>\n<p>Click here to subscribe to our channel \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/bbc.in\/3VyyriM<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of clay soldiers were uncovered in the province of Shaanxi after being buried for more than 2,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>They were guarding the tomb of the ancient ruler Qin Shi Huang, who ruled the Qin Dynasty.<\/p>\n<p>Hear more on Witness History \ud83c\udfa7 https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/w3ct4xfd<\/p>\n<p>Watch more videos from Witness History here \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLz_B0PFGIn4cfahLaE406BWHwYkYHqB57&#038;si=pvm6PsfhD8Ky3uMr<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nThis is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel.<br \/>\nIf you like what we do, you can also find us here:<br \/>\nInstagram \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nTwitter \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nFacebook \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/facebook.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nBBC World Service website \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldserviceradio<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for watching and subscribing!<br \/>\n#BBCWorldService #WorldService<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zhuLR_vXSOk\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 50 years since a group of farmers in China stumbled upon the one of the greatest archeological finds of the 20th Century. Click here to subscribe to our channel \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/bbc.in\/3VyyriM Thousands of clay soldiers were uncovered in the province of Shaanxi after being buried for more than 2,000 years. They were guarding the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150479,"featured_media":4944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5341,9905,814,15,369,1361,532,9330,1368,772,1367,193,1366,328,1362,9908,9907,1363,9906,9904,9909,9903,2033,1365,1364],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-ancient-china","tag-archeologist","tag-archeology","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-documentary","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-china","tag-chinese-history","tag-docs","tag-documentaries","tag-explainers","tag-history","tag-investigations","tag-podcast","tag-podcasts","tag-qin-dynasty","tag-qin-shi-huang","tag-radio","tag-shaanxi","tag-terracotta-army","tag-terracotta-army-documentary","tag-terracotta-warriors","tag-witness-history","tag-world-service","tag-world-service-radio","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}