The First Emperor’s Army | China's Megatomb Revealed
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- National Geographic Explorer Albert Lin visits the Terracotta Army.
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The First Emperor’s Army | China's Megatomb Revealed
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They've only unearthed a small part of the tomb. They soldiers were painted but the paint fades as soon as it's uncovered and they're trying to figure out ways to preserve the paints.
The First Emperor Quin Shi Huang who unified China. He is known for his Terracota Army and the Great Wall of China. Incredible History!
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The scariest thing is if they turn their heads and look at you
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Lets fight jajaaj
@@jrrey7146 cool don't care I was just saying for the fun of it. you didn't have to comment if you didn't like the comment
@@senpaikangroo1050 no bro, i mean lets fights the army.
@@jrrey7146 oh sry I thought you were being sarcastic and say let's all laugh hajajjaja
Let me add a little more: These terracotta army are in three pits, but there are more than 200 pits located around the First Qin Emperor's Tomb - which is literally a mountain. It may takes 100+ more years to dig and restore all these pits.
Holy fkkkk.. so much power
They can't dig it up because a town is nearby and the town may fall down.
With today's machinary they can dig up whole mountain in a decade. But they are not doing it which is good...
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Amazing!! But frightening walk through them in the darkness
Heaps amazing and interesting.
The people who disliked this video are losers who don't understand
The terracotta warriors are only a small part of the tomb complex. The most interesting part is the part that has not been excavated yet -- the central mound that is a forested hill covering the main pyramid-like structure of the emperor's tomb. There is a square path all the way around the large central mound that you can walk, but there is a fence on the inside of the path blocking access to the mound itself.
guy in the thumbnail looks like a Asian Kevin spacey
There are thousands of ancient burial mounds in the state of Assam in India. Interestingly in this case also the deceased rulers claimed themselves that their ancestors descend from heaven
This help me have a deeper understanding about "concept of Times.".
Each soldier must have been pretty tall.
Statues only look tall when the reference point is an Asian man.
statues are 183-195 cm - 6ft-6ft 5in
Ancient Chinese are pretty tall in general. Chinese are getting taller by having nutritious diet which we can afford thanks to the recent economic development.
It's no surprise as they probably mold it after the biggest soldiers for intimidation factor, it most likely do not reflect the actual height of the average soldiers during those times, they are more likely a bodyguard for the emperor passing into the afterlife so they likely pick the larger stature soldiers to be molded.
Taller do not equal healthier :D. Chinese people are also getting more obese and unhealthy by eating too much non traditional diet.
Great documentary. Are there any sequence? I've found just one episode.
Just wondering what happened to all the super long bronze swords the thousand of solders used
I see them in the movies depicting the fighting
Yet I have seen only a few recovered from tombs
Looks like they would be very difficult to fight with because of the weight of bronze
A thin sword would break easily
I can understand the “T” shaped heads they used on probably bamboo poles
Would be more manageable in fighting for a period of tIme
Maybe there were a lot of giants in that time
Just thinking
Thanks Just Awesome ❤ John Barnett ❤
Didn't they use these in actual battles? If you look far away they look like normal soldiers... maybe enemies didn''t attack because of overwhelming numbers? :)
revealed? i remember seeing this like 24 years ago
Doctor Robotnik, How old are you?
one of a few camera that could get so close shot.
i see it on the Mumia 3))))
It was discovered in 1974.
approximately 30
greek sculpture nothing to do with chinese sculpture. reason:
1. greek statue made from carved stone full size body without any coloring, chinese terracotta made from clay, have hollow inside it, and painted with color.
2. mtDNA found in xinjiang are tocharian people, they more close related to persian (iranian) rather than greek
3. mummy in xinjiang are blonde and red haired resembble nordic features, while greek are mostly mediteranian feature with black hair and dark eyes. if european want to claim, they more related with germanic tribe rather than greek but germanic tribe at that time (221BC) still barbarian and have no art or sculpture like greek or chinese one.
4. alexander the great never reach china, he reach afganistan, pakistan, and north-west india at maximum extent, never into modern day china's xinjiang province.
I make no claims of knowing whether Greek sculptures or sculptors had any influence or trained any of the craftsmen of the terracotta army, but I know this:
1. Greek statues were made from a wide array of materials, including terracotta:
i.imgur .com/Kcl6egv.jpg
Terracotta figurine of Hermes, made 450B.C.
Moreover the Greeks painted brilliant colours, to more calm lifelike colours on most of their statues - the paint just did not survive till today (with only the traces being able to be seen through UV light, as is the case with the terracotta army):
harvard magazine.com/2007/11/dazzlers-html
2. The mtDNA is European specific. Moreover, there existed no previous tradition for creating life-sized statues in China, only small figurines. Without centuries of practice and experimentation, the quickest way to making this leap in tradition is to have outside influence. This is what happened with Greco-Buddhist art, that even influenced China and Japan:
en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Greco-Buddhist_art
What is unique about the terracotta army theory, is not that it had Greek influence, but that it had Greek influence a lot earlier than expected.
3. This is an anachronistic view of genetics, modern day Mediterranean phenotypes have been affected by mass migration events and two thousand years of mixture with Arab and Turkish genes, much in the same way that Ancient Egyptians are not the same as modern Egyptians, Ancient Persians are not the same as modern Iranians or Ancient Chinese same as modern Chinese.
4. Alexander's conquests would bring the Hellenistic world up to China's border, maintained by the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom which traded extensively with the Han Empire
en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Greco-Bactrian_Kingdom
The tomb was built before the Han. The Han created the silk road by military campaigns to the west. Greeks never reached even modern Chinese borders which are further west than Han.
greek statues had coloring. didn't read the rest you wrote because of this mistake. and, google it.
Alexander ruled the middle east and persia and parts of India a hundred years prior to Qin empire. So there is a likelihood that there was some knowledge and artistic transferrance. Moreover, the Greek Statues were all very well colored during their time and the Romans copied what they did.
@@ConstantineJoseph Alexander only occupied indus valley region in india which is like western border and a little bit of top area in modern india
In that era,these horses really have good hair stylists
Closed to the public !
Open to the public.
First.
No British caveman here promoting Chinese history. Perhaps the rest of us should follow up.
Isn't it creepy to walk around them especially at night? lol
Every night the clay army is moving.
People if you like history search for Assyria it's about 7000 years and I am one of this nation
Amazing
The latest theory, these terracotta army is to honor China First Empress Dowager Miyue. The army formation represent Chu kingdom which Miyue came from. The hairstyle doesn't represent Qin. The chariot was abandon after Miyue reform the military. Because of Miyue reform on military and politic, Emperor Qin Shi Huang able to conquer the whole china. He take 18 year to do that after Miyue dealth. Emperor Qin is afraid of after death, he will never do such project for himself.
Disturb the tomb , army comes to life 🌚
That one friend in Minecraft when you ask him for materials:
Fascinating,.. more video of this place needs to be made/told
Great video.
he was scared and knew he did wrong
Anyone know where I can watch the full show ??
Where do you find the full documentary?
Unknown.
He’s a dictator not an emperor
If the film was broken down into segments: shots of Mr. Lin, shots of recreated drama and shots of
dig sites- 75% Mr. Lin, 20% drama recreations and 5% of what was actually dug up and in the dig. A glorified romp into Mr. Lin's profile from different angles, and him walking around. Someone at Nat Geo needs a dope slap.
Can't you make a near vacuum mini room along one of the walls of the inner tomb, drill a peephole from there, and put a canera probe through? Wouldn't have any air from the outside messing with any painting.
What’s so good about this?
Greco-Buddhist art is the artistic manifestation of Greco-Buddhism, a cultural syncretism between the Classical Greek culture and Buddhism, which developed over a period of close to 1000 years in Central Asia, between the conquests of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC, and the Islamic conquests of the 7th century AD. Greco-Buddhist art is characterized by the strong idealistic realism and sensuous description of Hellenistic art and the first representations of the Buddha in human form, which have helped define the artistic (and particularly, sculptural) canon for Buddhist art throughout the Asian continent up to the present. It is also a strong example of cultural syncretism between eastern and western traditions.
The origins of Greco-Buddhist art are to be found in the Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian kingdom (250 BC- 130 BC), located in today’s Afghanistan, from which Hellenistic culture radiated into the Indian subcontinent with the establishment of the Indo-Greek kingdom (180 BC-10 BC). Under the Indo-Greeks and then the Kushans, the interaction of Greek and Buddhist culture flourished in the area of Gandhara, in today’s northern Pakistan, before spreading further into India, influencing the art of Mathura, and then the Hindu art of the Gupta empire, which was to extend to the rest of South-East Asia. The influence of Greco-Buddhist art also spread northward towards Central Asia, strongly affecting the art of the Tarim Basin, and ultimately the arts of China, Korea, and Japan.
Hey, I love your video! I am currently creating a 1-min parody video about Terracotta for a social contribution project. Would it be possible if I use some of your scenes for my video? Thank you so much!
Are the warriors different heights?????? Just wondering if there is that much in details??????
So.... he showed up in the afterlife with a bunch of statues made of clay and he believed he was ready for war. Stop it
I"d love to see the full episode but it's no longer on the Disney channel. Does anybody know where I ca download it?
Xian is loaded with antiquity; not just the terra cotta army, but much older sites like the Banpo Neolithic Village. Loved every minute of it....
Amazing * ----- *
They dont know if he did it for the afterlife or merely as a memorial
Reminds me of when Shang tsu brought back the dragons army
That means he probably believed he was going to a bad place after death
This guy should use all that technology and ground penetrating radar to confirm The Hall of Records in front of The Sphinx
They used ai 😎
They are real people 🛸 ufos turned them into stone that’s why it’s so many and all different faces none alike ❤
Just curious. How much time has to pass before it’s ok to dig up a grave.
Didn't even know this was a thing till a second ago
This is awesome! Was he half fallen one a demi God spoken about in the book ?
Something is not releaves whats inside his tomb the government wont let anyone to enter there
where the documentary comes out where it says greeks helped them built it?
Who forced a sculptor to make so many dolls?
I want to go there
But where is the tomb of Emperor Quin?
The actual tomb is 1.5 kilometers to the west of the army and has yet to be excavated. It is in the shape of a mountain that is above ground, but the coffin containing the emperor's body is underground.
to much fault in this , but i think the answer is loulan kingdom
I can tell them how to enter the tomb unharmed.
They can’t even barely move and the emperor was expecting them to fight with him.
even his dead corpse wont move, whats your point, we are talking about after life, not this life.
Such n amazing Emperor with vision🥰great contributions to history
I have a fantastic puzzle book about the Terracotta army.
Where is the tomb of the emperor. ? Only army are there. Is it under it or where?
The tomb is 1.5 kilometers to the west of the army and can be seen above ground. It is in the shape of a mountain, while the coffin of the emperor's body is still buried beneath it. The Terracotta Army is only a fraction of the entire area of the tomb and was built to protect the emperor in the afterlife.
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Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum
i came here cuz of tiktok, idk why
Periodic table
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Who wants to fight after death?
This doco is amazing... such a gruesome era... incredible how a last born murders all of his sibling and mutilates all of his fathers concubines..the emperor was no different...
I really hate this bad feeling when I watch this.
Normal people are banned here
Ban for civilians m i right
I could use one still.👏🏻🕴🇨🇳
sure like to have one of those on eBAy one is so expensive
no one can really buy a real terracotta even if you could china would most likely send people to get it back at anycost so not really worth it's price or trouble just braging rights
why is it inside a building thats not where the stones were originally placed??
Esteban Meza its the original spot they just build a cover to protect it from changing weather or other factors that can damage the structures
+dope boy oh thnx
:09 can't say a "th" sound?
Wow
520 = 7
520+240+240 = M1000
520+240+240 = M8
1000x8
WOW
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me gusto mucho gracias
wow... amazing
Gives me goosebumps watching this
The way this guy talks it’s almost as if he is Qin Shi’s ancestor. Egooooooooo
THE TERRACOTTA ARMY. INSPIRED BY THE GREEKS.
there isn't even any strong proof of contact between the 2 civilizations. those are just speculations aka NOT real history at this point. all that these people are saying is that there wasn't a history of large life sized statues of humans before this. so they inferred that it MAY have been influenced by the greeks. that's not history at all. pure speculation.