Qin Shi Tomb

One day in the early 1970’s a farmer was on his land in Lintong the Shazznxi province digging a water well when he discovered a mass grave of statutes. As the mass graves were unearthed the magnitude of this tomb housed more than seven thousand statues of chariots, horses, and soldiers. Some of the soldiers were high ranking while others were infantry units. There were four main pits that were found east of the burial mound of first emperor Qin Shi Huang as if they were protecting him in the afterlife. There was not much detail of the sculptor except they may have been military of some type or maybe a master of their craft. They determined that the were made back in the third century. All of the statues were large and had very detailed from …show more content…
It is believed that the Qin Shi Huang ordered them to be made this way due to his eyes only having single eye lids. Most of the statues had some color to them but had faded or chipped over time. According to Wikipedia “The earthen tomb mound is located at the foot of Mount Li and built in a pyramidal shape and is surrounded by two solidly built rammed earth walls with gateway entrances. The necropolis consists of several offices halls stables and other structures as well as an imperial park placed around the tomb mound.” It was also believed that the workers were killed to protect the privacy of the tomb and what the emperor was creating. During the find of all these artifacts, all of the soldiers held real weapons to have more of a realistic look of the arm to them. Although some of the items were looted after the army was created. Most of the weapons rotted away. Out of everything that was found only four chariots were found in the tombs. These sculptors were made out of local materials while the faces were made from molds that had clay added later in the firing process. The legs are believed to have been made out of drainage pipes …show more content…
With Tutankhamun tomb it was very detailed and packed with many artifacts from the decade. Just like the Qin Shi Huang army, Tutankhamun death mask had extreme detail with such vibrate color, such detail of the two snake heads lunging out of the forehead. A wooden boost of a boy was also found in the tomb with such great detail, even down to the eyebrows. Over five thousand artifacts were found in the tomb from a solid gold coffin to food. According to Nicholas Reeves, “almost 80% of Tutankhamun's burial equipment originated from the female pharaoh Neferneferuaten's funerary goods including his famous gold mask, middle coffin, canopic coffinettes, several of the gilded shrine panels, the shabti-figures, the boxes and chests, the royal jewelry.” Even though the tomb he was buried in seemed to be small for a pharaoh, it is believed that Tutankhamun early death at the age of nineteen was the reason behind the small room. People discovered four more chambers that people said holds his mother and his sister. All of the tombs not only had a lot of artifacts in them, but just the decorations on the walls were almost as elaborate as the gold and jewelry. The details of the artist work on the walls of the monkeys and