Sunday, November 4, 2007

Terra Cotta Soldiers in Pit One


Terra Cotta Soldiers in Pit One, originally uploaded by yellojkt.

The terra cotta soldiers in Xian are a major tourist attraction. They were made and buried around 200 AD and only discovered a couple of decades ago.

The building was built around the pit where the soldiers were discovered and is bigger than an aircraft hangar.

3 comments:

Texas Coyote said...

the guy who "discovered" it while digging a well is usually sitting outside signing autographs. did you see him? i didn't...major disappointment.

kyle -zheige.blog.com

yellojkt said...

He was there. He wanted ten bucks to have his picture taken with him. We passed.

Unknown said...

Hihi, there are lots of Chinese Qin huang Terra-Cotta Soldier here:

http://giftsfunny.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=browse&pageid=131