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The mound where the tomb is located Plan of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum and location of the Terracotta Army ().The central tomb itself has yet to be excavated. [4]The construction of the tomb was described by the historian Sima Qian (145–90 BCE) in the Records of the Grand Historian, the first of China's 24 dynastic histories, which was written a century after the mausoleum's completion.
On 23 March 1974, [4] Yang Zhifa, 41 years old, living in Xiyang, a village of the Lintong county [5] 35 kilometers (20 miles) east from the city of Xi'an, [6] [7] decided, in the middle of a drought, to dig a well with his five brothers — Yang Wenhai, Yang Yanxin, Yang Quanyi, Yang Peiyan and Yang Xinman — and Wang Puzhi [8] to water their crops.
The tomb itself has not yet been excavated. Archaeological explorations currently concentrate on various sites of the extensive necropolis surrounding the tomb, including the Terracotta Army to the east of the tomb mound. [2] The Terracotta Army served as a garrison to the mausoleum and has yet to be completely excavated. [3] [4] [5]
The Yangjiawan terracotta army (Ch: 杨家湾兵马俑) is a small funeral terracotta army of the Western Han period, which was excavated in Yangjiawan, in the region of Xianyang, Shaanxi, a few kilometers north of Xi'an. The terracotta army belong to auxiliary tombs to the mausoleum of the first Han Emperor Gaozu (ruled 202–195 BCE) at ...
QABATIYA, West Bank (Reuters) -The Israeli military said on Friday it had opened an investigation after videos showed soldiers pushing what appear to be dead bodies off a roof in the occupied West ...
The story follows thirteen-year-old Ming, who lives in Communist China during the 1970s. Ming's father believes the lost tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang lies beneath the village and is forced to prove so before the village Political Officer sends him to a labor camp.
The show is narrated by an actor playing Li Bai, an ancient Chinese poet, who takes the viewer on a tour of the Chinese countryside and historical structures and buildings. Some sites that are seen are The Great Wall of China , The Forbidden City in Beijing , the Terracotta Army in Xi'an , Hunan , Guilin , Suzhou , Hong Kong , and Shanghai .
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