Awesome

Lots of pics at http://www.galenfrysinger.com/yang_ling_xian_china.htm

Many at http://www.pbase.com/cwillis/xian

and one at http://www.mayaexpeditions.com/internation...allery/pic5.htm

EDIT:Some background:

The occupant of the tomb was Han Jingdi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Jing_of_Han
More on the tomb: http://www.hqhostelxian.moonfruit.com/hany...tomb/4525345317
A PDF kit: http://www.amonline.net.au/exhibitions/two...11_yangling.pdf

[quote name='DaMo' date='Dec 5 2007, 03:27 AM' post='4913701']
Awesome


Greetings DaMo.

Awesome is truly the best word to describe some of these pictures. ( Things have got to be special when even an errant Lombard starts handing out complements)

MGV

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. You made my night!!

The October 2001 National Geographic has even more pics from Han YangLing and ShiHuangLing.

It's interesting how suddenly during the Qin there began an explosion of realistic human sculpture in Chinese civilization.

A couple of other items from Yangling:







The source (they have some other stuff, Qin/Han Dynasties, the site is in Dutch):

http://www.drentsmuseum.nl/index.cfm?pid=198