Friday, December 5, 2008
The famous Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an. This is a shot from one part of a tomb from a maniacal Chinese emperor from 2000 years ago... To make sure he would be protected in the afterlife, he hhad his minions spend 40 years creating an army thousands strong of terracotta warriors to surround the tomb where he would be buried. Apparently no two warriors are the same. Soon after he died, his tomb and many of the terracotta warriors were destroyed, then left dormant until the 1970's when Chinese farmers pulled up some fragments of the tomb when drilling a well.
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