Terracotta Warriors at the British Museum
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Wow! what can I say. A pit of inspirational and dark achievement from the ego and paranoia of the first Emperor of China.
There was only a selection of warriors on show, but it still got across a glimpse of what it would be like to gaze over them all in Qin’s tomb. Each warrior is different, and was modeled after the craftsmen who made them. Interesting to see how the craftsmen’s technique of creating terracota chimney’s was used to contruct the warriors’ hollow limbs and torso’s, which were then filled in with clay and moulded together. I don’t think they would have worked so hard had they known they’d literally take their secret to the grave, and be killed and walled up in the Emperor’s tomb so as to protect it’s location. Spooky! And such a great story!
Now I plan to go visit them at their home.
