Terracotta Army.China

Terracotta Army.China

Terracote Warriors

The complex houses the grave of Qin Shih Huang Ti was the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty - is located at the foot of Mount Lishan situated in more than 20 km from the city of Xian in Shaanxi Province. Tomb is striking in its originality. Qin Shi Huang (259 -.. 210 years BC), created China's first centralized state and appointed himself as the founder of the Qin Empire. The claim in the course of his life over all the kingdoms of the rule could not accept Qin Shi Huang, the loneliness after his death. To date, the complex grave the remains of more than 600 graves and tombs of grave goods, which were buried with the dead are discovered. On campus, the grave of Qin Shih Huang Ti found three large grave in which the buried terra-cotta statues of warriors and horses of war. To reproduce these terracotta army in detail of this military unit, staffed by all the rules of the Qin Empire.

According to preliminary estimates, after the excavation of the three crypts, it will be possible to extract more than 7,000 terracotta statues of warriors than 600 terra-cotta statues of horses, more than a hundred cars, a few hundred thousand samples of weapons. Statues of warriors and horses are made in full length, the height of the statues of soldiers from 1.7 to 2 m, which averages about 1.8 m. Each character is unique up. The Warriors are different in appearance, posture, facial expressions, as if each statue was bracketed by real people. The height of the statues of horses usually reached 1.5 m, length - 2 m was only a couple of statues of warriors and horses of war, the part of the grave of Qin Shih Huang Ti, but now the discovery is as a wonderful views. Archaeologists say the grave of Emperor Qin Shi Huang plant Ti is too grandiose to reveal all its secrets. When working in the traditional way, then dug up the entire complex requires at least 200 years. It is still unknown how many miracles the grave of Qin Shihuna hides, and how long will the undisturbed sleep a mysterious underground palace remain.

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