One of the pits can be seen in the picture on the left. Today, the pits are covered by huge buildings that look like hangars for airplanes, and hundreds of people are working to restore the soldiers. Over the years, the paint has faded, and vandals have taken the weapons. Most of the bodies are smashed because the wooden ceiling that was above them fell, and terra cotta breaks easily. Therefore, most of the soldiers are in bits and pieces.
Archaeologists carefully sift through the dirt inch by inch to find the tiniest parts.
Thousands of tourists from around the world come to see the original soldiers that survived through the centuries and the reconstructed soldiers being pieced together by archaeologists and trained workers.