WOW! I can't believe the weekend is finally here. (Almost)
Sam and I are going on a field trip with 79 other SMS classmates to the National Geographic Museum in Washington DC on Saturday to see China's Terra Cotta Warrior exhibit. This will be a once in a lifetime opportunity and we are both really looking forward to it.
A good friend of mine had mentioned that seeing the warriors was on his bucket list and I have to agree, it should be for anyone who loves History, archeology or China and all it's mystery and magic.
I will not be able to take any pictures of these international treasures, but you can see plenty of them here:
A small exerpt from the wesbite.
Soldiers. Charioteers. Archers. Musicians. Generals. Acrobats. Nearly 2,000 years ago, thousands of life-size clay figures were buried in massive underground pits to accompany China's first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi, into the afterlife. Their discovery outside the city of Xi'an in 1974 is one of the greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century.
There was a show a few years ago on NATGEO about the actual dig site in China and the Terra Cotta statues they found were unbelieveable, birds, horses, dogs, people. Thier culture purely believed in the afterlife.
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