Terracotta Paul

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September 26th 2006
Take first class sleeper from Beijing to Xi'an. A far cry from the Trans Sib, with each berth equipped with an LCD TV. Xi'an is the home of the Terracotta warriors, thousands of excavated life-sized clay soldiers. Hats off to the farmer that discovered them in the Seventies when digging a well - at 80-years-old, the poor sod is still wheeled out everyday to sign countless autographs for tourists. ... read more

Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xi'an

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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