Re: Interesting archeological discovery - Emperor Qin's tomb

From: I.E_Johansson (inger_e.xjohansson_at_telia.xcom)
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:51:22 GMT

"Doug Weller" <dweller@ramtops.removethisdemon.co.uk> skrev i meddelandet
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> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:45:32 GMT, in sci.archaeology, I.E_Johansson wrote:
>
> >
> >"Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu> skrev i meddelandet
> >news:csopmn$oah$5@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu...
> >> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, "University Studies" <gov-statistics@no.spam>
wrote:
> >>
> >> > "David B" <tronospamchos@tesco.net> wrote in message
> >> > news:3LOHd.100$l8.99@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net...
> >> >> Amazingly, next year will be the 30th anniversary of the unearthing
of
> >the
> >> >> first terracotta soldiers. How time flies.
> >> >
> >> > True David, many thousands of terra cotta warriors surrounding the
> >> > underground palace have been unearthed, but as of 2005 they still
have
> >not
> >> > entered the main underground palace. This may turn out to be one of
the
> >most
> >> > monumental excavations of the century. I wish they would hurry up.
> >> >
> >> > Quote from the link below;
> >> >
>
>http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/shaanxi/xian/terra_cotta_army/ma
u
> >soleum_6.htm
> >> >
> >> > "The underground palace boasts a microcosm of
> >> > the heavens and the earth. The historical records
> >> > of the first century BC state " Work on his tomb
> >> > began as soon as Emperor Qin gained power.
> >> > The tomb contains palaces and pavilions filled
> >> > with rare gems and other treasures, and is
> >> > equipped with crossbows to shoot automatically
> >> > any intruders!"
> >>
> >> Hey, now we have a story for the next Indiana Jones movie!
> >
> >No that Chinese information is 100% correct. I thought that many turists
> >from US as well as from the 'Old World' had been there so this was
wellknown
> >information.
>
> Ok, I'll bite. How can anyone know what is actually in an unexplored tomb?

When did you your homework on the site in question last? If you had you
would have known that while no one had believed the army to exist before it
was found the details for that as well as the latest years findings have
been known from a written documentation of the time. It's never been
believed mostly because it contains details as that the world is copied and
the seas, lakes and river in miniature-sizes have circulating 'water' in
form of mercury/quicksilver. It's said to hold the largest fortune in
juwelery ever seen and so on. The details for the 'defending'-system are
presented as are all the artifacts found up to this day. The later is the
reason why scholars and archaeologists at least expect the
'defending-system' or attack on anyone trying to enter the tomb might be
according to written source.

Inger E
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