Pit 1 at the Terracotta Warrior Museum

Terracotta Warriors

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July 22nd 2007
In the recent blog site crash, it looks like the section on the terracotta warriors disappeared. The first emperor's tomb proved to be everything I had expected it to be--amazing and spectacular. The warriors were created more than two thousand years ago by 700,000 conscript artisans and workers, many of whom were buried alive at the emperor's death to keep them from telling where the tomb was loc ... read more

Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xi'an

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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