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Indranil Sircar
12-28-2009, 09:45 AM
From a trip to Xi'an in 2007...
Gus Cobos
12-28-2009, 10:00 AM
Hi Indranil,
I like the perspective, its well seen...:cool:
Indranil Sircar
12-28-2009, 10:02 AM
Thanks Gus
Gus Cobos
12-28-2009, 10:05 AM
How many of these warriors are there Indranil? and how tall are they?
Indranil Sircar
12-28-2009, 10:18 AM
Hi Gus, they are all life size and it is presumed the artists used real soldiers of the emperor's army to model the warriors. Interestingly their height is determined by their ranks with Generals being the tallest and strongest. So far they have uncovered three pits with an estimate of about 8000 warriors. It takes about an year to restore one warrior and only a small fraction has been restored so far. Some of the other pits have significant damage caused by the conquering army following the death of the Emperor Qin. Here is the image of the largest pit...
Gus Cobos
12-28-2009, 10:21 AM
Amazing, what a spectacular site...Wow...thanks for sharing...:cool:
Harshad Barve
12-28-2009, 10:35 AM
Lovely image
TFS
Indranil Sircar
12-28-2009, 11:21 AM
Thanks Harshad.
Harshad Barve
12-28-2009, 11:52 AM
I had been to this place in 2008 , will dig ot my version of TW;) , One must visit place
Lana Hays
12-28-2009, 05:40 PM
Harshad
What a magnificient sight. I actually enjoyed the second image even more due to the perspective. What was the purpose of all these warriors?
Indranil Sircar
12-28-2009, 06:49 PM
Hi Lana, the warriors were for the Emperor to rule another world after his death. Here are more details in wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army

~ Indranil
Lana Hays
12-28-2009, 07:41 PM
Indranil
Thanks for the information. I have seen some of the warriors when they were in a display on China that was in the US. Seeing a few were incredible but to see an entire pit of them would be incredible.
Jackie Schuknecht
12-30-2009, 11:10 AM
This must have been a sight Indranil, one place I would love to visit too.