[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

*** the egg was as a binder for colourful paints, which went over a layer of lacquer. ***

So can we say the Chinese invented Egg Tempra painting?

[toldyou]

Ping!

[toldyou]

I visited the terra cotta warriors site in Xiam last October. It was spectacular!

A “must see” if you’re visiting China!

[Liberty Valance]

Thats a lot of egg ...

[lesser_satan]

There was a story a couple years ago where a college kid fashioned himself some armor the looked authentic to the period and covered his face with clay and hid amongst the statues, and the Chi-Comm army had to search statue-to-statue to find him. I think the kid was British, IIRC. Brilliant prank, IMO. Even the commie gov’t got a laugh out of it.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Proud_USA_Republican]

The unreal thing is that are are probably more sites of those that haven’t been unearthed around the tomb yet.

Plus the main tomb is by some considered the most valuable grave in the world. It was buried under a mountain of dirt after he died. From reports, the tomb’s ceiling is incrusted with jewels to look like the night sky. The chinese at the time believed mercury was a cure all and the emporer would consume it believing it healed any ailments. Ofcourse we all know what consuming large amounts of mercury can do to you. Anyway around his small mosuleum were the body lay, the floor was a large map of the world and all the ocean area was filled with mercury that flowed like the oceans. The say its easily the size of a football field.

[TXnMA]

All of my family agree that we have seen (in National Geographic?) one of these terracotta soldiers for which "Survivor" winner, Yul Kwon, could have been the model...

[TXnMA]

Any idea what the composition of that "Chinese Purple" pigment was? My guess is that it was something other than the "Royal Purple" dye derived from the murex sea mollusc...

[Ramius]

7,000 terracotta warriors. And hundreds of horses and chariots and such. It’s really quite staggering to consider.

They must have really liked that guy.