Just a few holiday snaps from visiting the Terracotta Warriors that I'd like to share.

#1 Terracotta Warrior. Glass displays and reflections are a real pain.


#2 Bronze Chariots


#3 A Kneeling Archer


#4 A high ranking officer


#5 Pit 2, one of three Pits.


#6 Pit 3


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#8 Onto Pit 1, the biggest of the three pits


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Oh, and you want your own terracotta warrior? No worries, there's plenty of replicas for sale all over town :


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More can be found at my flickr
Comments, criticisms, suggestions and lens donations all welcome.

[Spongefingers]

Good stuff. I particularly like image 6, 9, and 15. image 7 is spooky with the general lack of heads.
I also liked IMGP8223 (on flickr) - it has a telling, gruesome quality to it with the supine figures and fragments, like the aftermath of a battle.

[cupic]

Its a grand display(and where about is this display)


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[madmikess]

If this is the grave that I'm thinking of, it's really amazing all the work that went into making that army of statues. Great shots.

[gawan]

The whole terracotta story is so interesting and should get the status of 8th wonder of the world, does it not!

[pop4]

Good stuff. I particularly like image 6, 9, and 15. image 7 is spooky with the general lack of heads.
I also liked IMGP8223 (on flickr) - it has a telling, gruesome quality to it with the supine figures and fragments, like the aftermath of a battle.

Thanks. Yeah, there's a few more photos on my flickr where the figures are in pieces and yet to be excavated. For anyone that's interested, the one that you're talking about is this one:

Its a grand display(and where about is this display)

It's near Xi'an, in the middle of China. To be honest, I personally was a bit underwhelmed by it all.

If this is the grave that I'm thinking of, it's really amazing all the work that went into making that army of statues. Great shots.

Are you thinking of the one near Xi'an, in China, built by the First Emperor to accompany him into the afterlife? If so, you've got it!

The whole terracotta story is so interesting and should get the status of 8th wonder of the world, does it not!

Hahaha, is that some tongue-in-cheek humor?

[madmikess]

Are you thinking of the one near Xi'an, in China, built by the First Emperor to accompany him into the afterlife? If so, you've got it!

That's the one. I knew they made up a museum around it. I think it's rather cool.

[gawan]

Hahaha, is that some tongue-in-cheek humor?

LOL, hmm, actually no! There are those famous "Seven wonders of ancient world", you know, Pyramids of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, temple of Artemis in Ephesus in Greece etc. I just wanted to point out that these Terracotta Warriors are in fact monuments of equal calibre, IMO. But you are welcome to take it humorously, of course, I don't mind.

See: Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[pop4]

LOL, hmm, actually no! There are those famous "Seven wonders of ancient world", you know, Pyramids of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, temple of Artemis in Ephesus in Greece etc. I just wanted to point out that these Terracotta Warriors are in fact monuments of equal calibre, IMO. But you are welcome to take it humorously, of course, I don't mind.

See: Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hahaha, I though you had visited there before; they've actually got signs at the Musem of Terracotta Warriors promoting it as the Eighth Wonder of the World...

[gawan]

Hahaha, I though you had visited there before; they've actually got signs at the Musem of Terracotta Warriors promoting it as the Eighth Wonder of the World...

Ah, I understand! Did not know that, nice coincident, though Never been there , but sure would like to - some day!

Fascinating, thanks for posting.
Did you ever see one of those world record domino toppling events? Wouldn't that be something?