China's terra-cotta warriors to be shown in London  

Over 120 loan objects from China's Museum of Terra-cotta Army will be shown this autumn in a major British Museum exhibition which features China's first emperor.

Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, made the announcement on Wednesday at a press launch of the museum's major exhibition in 2007.

This loan exhibition "First Emperor: China's Terra-cotta Army", scheduled to run seven months from Sept. 13 this year to April 6 of next year, will feature the largest group of material from the tomb of the First Emperor to be loaned abroad, he said.

Exhibits include 20 complete terra-cotta figures from the tomb of world-famous Qin Shihuangdi, China's First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty (221 to 207 B.C.) and the man who effectively created the state of China 2,000 years ago.