Silk Road 02 - Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum
Channel: 天下山水 Tianxia Shanshui
Date: 2023-07-16

Our next desination is the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum. It is located about 42km from the Bell Tower of Xian in Lintong Distrct. In April 1974, when archaeologist Zhao Kangmin picked up the phone, all he was told was that a group of farmers digging a well nearby had found some relics. But what Zhao was about to find would surpass anything he could have imagined. The farmers, it would turn out, had stumbled upon one of the most stunning archaeological finds of the 20th Century: a terracotta army estimated at 8,000-strong, crafted on an industrial scale 2,200 years earlier to defend the emperor in the afterlife. A ghost army, complete with horses and chariots, hidden underground and never meant to be seen by the living