Thursday, May 31, 2007

Xi'an, Terracotta Army

This is the last post of our trip to Xi'an, and the last schedule post of our recent trip to China.



It deals with the most amazing thing I saw this year: the Terracotta Army. It's often called the Terracotta Warriors, but it is not merely a number of buried soldier-dolls. For reasons I'll speculate at below, the Terracotta forces are well organized and clearly well-run in their burnt-earth world.



So come with us, and experience that wonder of the world only discovered in the 1970s: the Terracotta Army.

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