On March 29, 1974, at Xi’an in China, three local farmers were digging a well in hopes to find water, but instead broke into a pit that contained 6000 Terracotta figures. This was only one of the pits that they had found until an excavation started in 1976, which revealed two more pits of Terracotta Warriors. This is now known as the Terracotta Army, which I think is a wonderful historic mystery for a young adult (teen) -action, mystery, romance etc.- novel. Than my other studied Historical Mystery, which was Stonehenge. Why? You may ask, well….
Firstly, When the terracotta army was discovered by accident at a farm in Xi’an, China, local farmers were digging a well, and broke into a pit which contained six thousand of the eight thousand life-sized terracotta Figures. If I were reading a book about the Terracotta Army and someone had discovered an unknown chamber, I would sure want to read on to find out more …show more content…
There may have been a new discovery on Stonehenge, where they have found stone holes, which showed the location of missing stones, which had once filled out the circle. Many people pondered if Stonehenge was built in a circle for almost 4000 years. This may be a very exciting time, but you would want to keep your reader on the tip of their toes, Stonehenge may be able to do that, but it wouldn’t be quite a long and interesting as The Terracotta Army, due to there being increased discoveries and there are still chances that there are more chambers
Firstly, When the terracotta army was discovered by accident at a farm in Xi’an, China, local farmers were digging a well, and broke into a pit which contained six thousand of the eight thousand life-sized terracotta Figures. If I were reading a book about the Terracotta Army and someone had discovered an unknown chamber, I would sure want to read on to find out more …show more content…
There may have been a new discovery on Stonehenge, where they have found stone holes, which showed the location of missing stones, which had once filled out the circle. Many people pondered if Stonehenge was built in a circle for almost 4000 years. This may be a very exciting time, but you would want to keep your reader on the tip of their toes, Stonehenge may be able to do that, but it wouldn’t be quite a long and interesting as The Terracotta Army, due to there being increased discoveries and there are still chances that there are more chambers