Author: MAURICE M. COTTERELL
Title: The Terracotta Warriors
Description: Headline, 2004. Paperback. Pp: 298. Legend has it that in 210 BC the first emperor of unified China, Shi Huang-te, decreed that after his death his body should be clothed in jade, cast adrift in a lake of mercury within a pyramid, and protected by an everlasting army. In 1974, archaeologists discovered the first of more than 7000 lifesize terracotta warriors buried near the pyramid tomb of Shi Huang-te, confirming that the legend was more than a myth. But why were the massive soldiers, each weighing more than half a tonne, buried there at all? Was it simply to guard the emperor in the afterlife? Or was there more to the legend?. ISBN: 9780747264446. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.
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Title: The Terracotta Warriors
Description: Headline, 2004. Paperback. Pp: 298. Legend has it that in 210 BC the first emperor of unified China, Shi Huang-te, decreed that after his death his body should be clothed in jade, cast adrift in a lake of mercury within a pyramid, and protected by an everlasting army. In 1974, archaeologists discovered the first of more than 7000 lifesize terracotta warriors buried near the pyramid tomb of Shi Huang-te, confirming that the legend was more than a myth. But why were the massive soldiers, each weighing more than half a tonne, buried there at all? Was it simply to guard the emperor in the afterlife? Or was there more to the legend?. ISBN: 9780747264446. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.
Keywords: 9780747264446
Price: EUR 6.00 = appr. US$ 6.52 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2349451
- Book number: 2349451
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