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Thread: Terracotta Warriors. Fake?
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[quote=EXPATBRAT,225913]Found this article. What do you guys think of these claims? Appreciate your feedback. Thanks.The whole Terracotta Warriors thing looks a bit like a set up. A lot like the “you can see the Great Wall of China from Outer Space” claim. The story goes that some farmers were digging a new well and low and behold, they found an army of pottery soldiers. Officials came in, semi excavated the site, put a roof over the top and left the excavating equipment laying around with reassurances there are still thousands yet undiscovered, and they are still working to dig more out. That was thirty plus years ago. If there was more to find, I reckon the Chinese would have unearthed them by now. The have not. No soil has been removed from the site for twenty years, but the equipment is still there, as is the promise "we are still working on it." I reckon that is because there are no more.Perhaps the Pottery War Hero’s really are from 2000 years ago. Story has it that Qin Shihuang originally asked for 4000 teens to be buried alive to join him in the afterlife and had to be talked to accepting Terracotta solders as a compromise. That part of the story sounds about right. But the claim that there are hundreds more warriors and Qin Shihuang tomb, alleged to be full of untold treasures surrounded by rivers of mercury, still to be located in the surrounding areas, that sound a bit untrue. If authorities believed there was millions in treasure to discover they would do everything to unearth them. They have 1.3 billion people at their disposal. If they want something done they do it. Look at the thousands that die in mines every year, safety of the lower class is not a concern. If the tombs exist the Chinese would have uncovered them. They’d unveil them, stand back, and proudly pound their chest boasting “look at our clever ancestors.” Some little mercury rivers would never get in the way of that.[/quote]
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