Terracotta Army: The greatest archaeological find of the 20th century -

[bathroommonkey76]

In March 1974, Chinese farmers digging a well unearthed the greatest archaeological find of the century - the buried Terracotta Army. After coming across a life-sized human head made of clay in Xi’an, China, archaeologists were called in to investigate. What they found was extraordinary. Thousands of life-like terracotta figures from the Qin dynasty, fashioned 2,000 years ago to protect the First Emperor of China in the afterlife. Archaeologist Li Xiuzhen has worked on the site since the 1980s. Her team was the first to discover that each warrior was originally painted in bright colours.

[lostinhere]

1. I remember

I remember when this was first announced, followed by a full spread in National Geographic magazine. Forty-three years later and there are still stuff to learn. And when was the last time you saw something built in the last 100 years that could survive 2000 years, above or below ground?

Thanks for the post & video.

[bathroommonkey76]

3. I think I have that National Geographic article in my storage unit.

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And it's my pleasure- I'm a lover of history. Sometimes it's nice to see videos that aren't of political nature on here.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Oh! I knew what this was! My parents visited there!

It is absolutely amazing, boggles the mind! My mother brought home small replicas of the soldiers, it's something you never forget!

[dhol82]

4. I visited there several years ago

What most don't realize is how huge the site is. It goes on for acres and acres.

Truly stunning.

[pangaia]

5. It actually is outside the city but Xi'an itself is also great to visit.

Old walled city, with massive gates, great variety of eats as it was one end of the so-called Silk Road.

[WinkyDink]

6. Beg to differ!! Gobekli Tepe (found 1963) is #1 of all time! We're talking "Don't know how or why."

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gobekli-tepe-the-worlds-first-temple-83613665/
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http://www.zeropointintime.com/

"Unearthing findings that will enable the course of human history to be rewritten, Göbekli Tepe is a center of faith dating to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Age around 9,600 BC, or to about 11,600 years ago."
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/04/21/ancient-stone-carvings-confirm-comet-struck-earth-10950bc-wiping/

"It appears Göbekli Tepe was, among other things, an observatory for monitoring the night sky.

“One of its pillars seems to have served as a memorial to this devastating event – probably the worst day in history since the end of the ice age."
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The most current book about Gobekli Tepe and its message to us:

"Magicians of the Gods." (BTW, Graham Hancock is not a "Conspiracy Theorist." What this author and researcher IS, is a man who does not accept and has not accepted the words of archaeologists---who are just that, and not astronomers, nor engineers, nor architects, nor, you get the point---words that often are square pegs forced into pre-ordained round holes, often deliberately ignoring contravening and anomalous evidence, at face value.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/graham-hancock-interview/

[iamateacher]

7. It was incredible to see...

And the main part of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang has not been excavated. The thing that struck me was every warrior's face, hair, clothing was different. We were there the day after Michelle Obama was there and the red carpet was still down. Oh, and one of the farmers who discovered the site was signing books in the gift shop.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Tutankahmun? Dead Sea Scrolls? Olduvai Gorge? Nazca Lines? Tyrolean Iceman?

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. ...and these dudes...

[FailureToCommunicate]

9. So impressive! Surprised to learn that they were once painted bright colors, because

to my eye at least, they seem like a far more imposing army as they first appeared in drab monotone.

Thanks for posting!

[MFM008]

11. Sorry it was a great find

But I think the 'survive underground' award goes to Howard Carter and the accidental King Tutankamun award.
Accident because just the survival of the hoard was a miracle in itself.
Just imagine, if this was the haul of such a minor king what the tombs of Rameses ll and Thutmose III
must have looked like?

[FraDon]

12. really, and where ...

IS all that looted treasure today?

[MFM008]

13. gone

stolen, probably by those who put it in there.
Im just saying, Tut was a nobody, king for 9 years,
Ramses was king for 60 some years at least, 93 years old...
the thought of those treasures play in your mind.
it must have been mind boggling.