Let's talk archeology, is THAT allowed 🙄

We get it, you hate the mods.

We get it. You don’t want to follow the rules.

MC has realised that political discussion is so important that they’ve created a whole board specifically for this purpose.

Those dudes are in still good shape after 2,000 years.

I love the terracotta army! I'd love to see it in real life!

Those are truly magnificent.

well if it was respected to begin with... but nooo bury it... wait if we show how disrepectful we are - dig up earth to make monuments then we can disrespect them and eventually stories will be told.

The story behind these was fascinating to read. These all come from the tomb of Shi Huang Di, China's very first emperor, and founder of the Qin (pronounced "chin") Dynasty. The very name of the dynasty is the origin behind calling the country "China."

(Chinese words are a lot easier to pronounce if you pretend X = "sh" and Q = "ch").

From what I read, each warrior is life-sized, and legend has it that each one's face is uniquely designed, and supposedly modeled after the real soldiers in the Emperor's army. There are said to be over 1,100 clay warriors in the "army," whose sole purpose is to guard Shi Huang Di's tomb. (Word on the street is, the Chinese govt. still has not sent in their own archeologists because there are legends of booby traps in there, and they're scared of both killing the archeologists, and destroying the tomb in the process).