Terracotta Army- The Terracotta WARRIORS Xi’an Shanxi province. China
China’s 2,000-year-old Terracotta Army was one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century (1974 actually). These world-famous Terracotta Warriors are part of a vast underground necropolis for China’s first Emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi, that took 700,000 workers 36 years to create.
The Terracotta Army in Xi’an China
Terracotta Army- The Terracotta WARRIORS
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
The Terracotta Army in Xi’an China
The Terracotta Army in Xi’an China
The Terracotta Army in Xi’an China
The Terracotta Army in Xi’an China
The Terracotta Army in Xi’an China
The Terracotta Army in Xi’an China
The Terracotta Army in Xi’an China
The Terracotta Army in Xi’an China
A terracotta soldier and his horse
The Terracotta Army in Xi’an China
Terracotta detail. No two life-sized figures are alike in the tomb.
Terracotta figures in various stages of re-assembly after being unearthed
The Terracotta Army in Xi’an China
Myth says that in 206BC the first Emperor of Unified China, Ch’in ShiHuangdi, decreed that after his death his body would be clothed in jade and cast adrift in a lake of Mercury. The lake, within a pyramid, was to be protected by an everlasting army. Like Tutankhamun, in Egypt, lord Pacal, in Mexico and the Viracochas’, of Peru Shi Huangdi taught the super-science of the sun and the higher orders of spirituality. They say that, after he died, he flew to the sun to live forever.In 1974, archaeologists actually discovered the first of more than 8,000 life-size terracotta warriors buried near the pyramid tomb of Ch’in Shi Huangdi, confirming that the legend was more than just a myth. But why were the massive soldiers, each weighing more than half a tone, buried there at all? Was it simply to guard the Emperor in the afterlife?Maybe one day we’ll get the answers to this questions
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