Yesterday we went to the terracotta warriors. The drive there was OK but the drive back was hideous because the driver seemed to be on the verge of sleep!
The warriors themselves were not actually all perfectly put together and with heads. Despite what you see in photographs, most of them are either headless or just piles of bits, and most of pit 2 is still under the roof. Most of pit one is broken with just the front part (what you see in photos) put together perfectly with heads.
The warriors are around 2200 years old. There are around 1127 items unearthed and there is expected to be around 7000 figures total with hundreds of chariots and horses. What amazes me is that they still haven't figured out how they fired them!
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Yo declan!
ReplyDeleteYeah I've seen terracotta warriors
in movies in stuff, but the warriors are
usually just shown as living stone warriors
that want to kill everyone! But I've only
seen a couple pictures which are literally
pictures, not photos.
From Sophie
You get back when we start
FLASH! ha ha!