I'm a warrior

Terracotta Warriors - and a little snake wine

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November 4th 2008
Sorry for the brief note yesterday but we ran out of time. I'll go back and add some captions so you can tell a little more about those pictures. Today was my day. I was in archaeology heaven. We traveled to the Terracotta Warriors museum to see the excavated clay life size warriors surrounding the tomb of the first Chinese Emperor, Chin. These were discovered in 1974 by a farmer digging a w ... read more

Asia » China

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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