Terracotta Army

Terracotta Warriors With the discovery of the terracotta army near Xi’an in China, we can learn many things pertaining to the culture of Ancient China and the Qin Dynasty. What we can achieve to learn is how the soldiers and weapons were crafted and the types of weaponry used. The technology used to create them was the best of it’s time, and shows the technological prowess of the Qin Dynasty. The level of organization is also extremely high, considering the process of making and relocating the…

The Terracotta warriors were soldiers made by laborers for the emperor Qin Shi Huang. The laborers started building them when he was thirteen years old. The warriors were made to protect him from the afterlife. Villagers that were digging wells discovered them in 1974. When they were digging they first found hands and legs, and told more people, they kept digging and found statues, they had they had dug over seven feet they found blue brick. They were made from terracotta or yellow earth…

A tea from 2150 years ago was found in the Han Yang Lin Mausoleum. It was a tomb built for the Emperor Jing Di the fourth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, near the city of Xi’an in China.The tomb was discovered by the monks of the Gurgyam monastery in 2005 and a systematic excavation was made in 2012. The tomb was buried under a river, with a square wooden coffin and a preserved skeleton. Other Artifacts were also found such as silk pieces, ceramics, pottery figures, ceramic animals, wooden…

The Terra Cotta Soldiers. The accidental find that led to a full-blown excavation. It consists of three giant pits of Terracotta warriors sculpted to protect the Emperor, Qin Shihuang after he died. They were buried for thousands of years, undisturbed until fairly recently. The find was a goldmine for artifacts and records from ancient China, and it solidified the evidence of the reign of Qin Shihuang. The time of the First Emperor’s rule all took place during Qin, as a state. This was from 221…

Museums are known for showcasing any type of history whether its art, state history, or even dark historical museums are helpful in relearning or even revisiting history. The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis recently received a new exhibit called the, Terra Cotta Warriors, which exhibits actual terra cotta warriors found that were sealed in order to protect China’s first emperor in his afterlife. The emperor had thousands upon thousands built in order to ensure he would be safe after his…

Centuries later, Earth was forgotten. Its people hadn’t known what their early ancestors had gone through. The Smirx was supposed to stay hidden, but was recovered by local archaeologists mining for ancient artifacts. The archeologist was Brett Herman, a graduate at Harvard University who recovered other ancient artifacts around the Earth. Brett revealed it to the world; everyone was astounded. Since he was so rich, he lived in a huge mansion in Italy that even the president couldn’t afford…

The Astonishing Tombs of Sipán Around 100 to 800 A.D., there was an ancient civilization that thrived on the north coast of Peru. This ancient civilization was called “Moche”. The civilization was believed to be a normal ancient civilization, but in 1987, artifacts of the Moche started showing up on the art market illegally. Later it was discovered that a group of grave robbers had looted these ancient royal tombs. With the help of the Peruvian police, Walter Alva set out to find these…

items were looted after the army was created. Most of the weapons rotted away. Out of everything that was found only four chariots were found in the tombs. These sculptors were made out of local materials while the faces were made from molds that had clay added later in the firing process. The legs are believed to have been made out of drainage pipes…

Suzanna Blier’s Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power and Identity examines the creation and expression of sculptures and other arts in the ancient city of Ife. The novel provides an interesting lens into the early civilization’s culture by examining the often perplexingly technical sculptures that have intrigued historians for centuries. The first chapter specifically address Blier’s theory that the looming potential of different risks bolstered the quality and technical complexity…

Yusef Komunyakaa has good knowledge of history and war which he incorporates smooth-ly in his poems, “Love in the Time of War”, “The Clay Army”, and “Grenade”. Goldstein simi-larly recognizes that war is crucial which influence people’s activities. This is applicable through-out these poems, which illustrate the need for soldiers to unite in time of war to be successful. One of the poems in the first section, “Tribe. Clan” gives two stanzas that exchange pain and lust. Komunyakaa writes war…