This article looked at interesting observations on how the terracotta army was dug up and exemplary technology - how all these thousands of sculptures could be made.
It turns out that there is another terracotta army and it was buried near another earthen pyramid in Xi'an:
Model of the aboveground, underground part of this pyramid-tomb and a brief description of whose grave it is according to the research of Chinese historians. As they say, such an "anthill" of rooms and ritual objects is located at each of the pyramids. So what did the Chinese archaeologists unearth at this pyramid?
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Large-scale excavations were carried out and a museum was built. The layout above shows the area occupied by the museum building at the pyramid. Thousands of sculptures were found in the trenches, not of warriors, but of the type of mannequins, shorter than human. Now they would say that these are mannequins for children's clothing. The sculptures are all the same, with male characteristics. But there are women too. For some reason, they are all without hands. Although there are holes for fasteners.
For some reason, some of the "mannequins" were buried carelessly, knocked down. And there are trenches where everyone has fallen. And so, as if someone passed in the middle of the ditch and pushed them in different directions. So they buried it. Some kind of disregard for the emperor, it turns out …
Some of the mannequins were in clothes. Organic matter, of course, has decayed.
Archaeologists dig them up, clean them of clay. They depict the faces of adult men. But why was the scaled down chosen for the mannequin sculptures? And the bodies are like children. There are mannequins on horseback.
In a separate trench, there are herds of sheep, horses and statues of dogs. Buried in 2-3 tiers one above the other. Those. the version that it was made by volcanic ash (expressed in the previous article) is not consistent, judging by these photographs. Most likely this is a ritual on the verge of fanaticism.
All terracotta sculptures are also hollow. This is a photograph from a photograph from a museum at the Yangling Archaeological Site.
Pyramid-mausoleum of the wife of Emperor Jing-di.
Photos from the museum. This is the excavation of the brick wall of the complex, carried out earlier. The entire territory was surrounded by a wall. A marriage or battle from the sculptures is visible, scattered against the wall. But all these fragments are under a thick layer of soil. Yes, and the wall itself, it turns out, goes deep into the depths of the earth.
At one time, there were opinions on the Internet that these pyramids did not belong to Chinese culture, that only a highly developed civilization could build them. Because the volume of work is simply gigantic for that time. And the Chinese authorities are hiding it. No, this still applies to Chinese culture. But, perhaps, all this is not as ancient as they want to convey to us. Some 70 years ago, China was a backward state in all respects.
The possibilities that are felt in the scale of honors to their emperors are not observed even at the beginning of the 20th century. Beijing at that time was essentially a village, not to mention other cities. And besides these hundreds of pyramids-mausoleums there is a huge length and width of the shipping channel in China. About 1800 km long and with branches for 2500 km. It was also not built in our time and not even in the 19th century. Officially: from 7th to 13th century
In general, one gets the impression that after the flourishing of culture and civilization in China (as well as throughout Southeast Asia), a period of oblivion followed. With what it is connected and when it happened in real chronology - remains to be seen.
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Author: sibved