Re: Interesting archeological discovery - Emperor Qin's tomb
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Date: 01/21/05
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Date: 20 Jan 2005 22:08:27 -0800
Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, "David B."
<davidb@tronospamchos.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Bobby D. Bryant wrote in message ...
> >>
> >>Hey, now we have a story for the next Indiana Jones movie!
> >
> > Indeed. As "Virtual Archaeology" (1997 English translation of the
1996 work
> > "Archeologia: Percorsi virtuali nelle civilta scomparse") put it:
> > "Vast quantities of treasure were reputed to have formed part of
the
> > funerary assemblage of the First Emperor, protected by defence
systems
> > worthy of an Indiana Jones film" ... "According to the textual
sources,
> > though, it was actually violated and sacked by the rebel forces
that put an
> > end to the brief flowering of the Qin dynasty".
>
> It will be cool if we can find remnants of the defence systems.
>
> At sites around the world, what kinds of defence systems have we
found?
> Anyone know of some cool ones?
>
> --
> Bobby Bryant
> Austin, Texas
Of the many fantastic things listed for the tomb by the Grand
Historian Ssu Ma, is something that is most likely to be there, and by
far the 'coolest'
item....a map of the world known to the Chinese cartographers in the
year 210 BC.
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