Secrets of the Terracotta Army: Tomb of an Ancient Chinese Emperor
EDGE BOOKS ARCHAEOLOGICAL MYSTERIES SECRETS OF THE TERRACOTTA ARMY TOMB OF AN ANCIENT CHINESE EMPEROR BY MICHAEL CAPEK Consultant Hanchao Lu Professor of History Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta Georgia CAPSTONE PRESS a capstone imprint
TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 A BURIED ARMY EMERGES CHAPTER 2 REBUILDING AN ARMY CHAPTER 3 AN ARMY FOR AN EMPEROR CHAPTER 4 THE END OF QIN CHAPTER 5 SAVING THE ANCIENT ARMY CRITICAL THINKING USING THE COMMON CORE GLOSSARY READ MORE INTERNET SITES INDEX
CHAPTER ONE A BURIED ARMY EMERGES Farmers digging in the dark pit were frightened For centuries they had heard about evil spirits that lurked beneath the soil in this field Strange things had been seen here Faces were said to have loomed suddenly out of the dirt when people had dug too deeply Grasping hands had sometimes appeared People had long whispered about these ghosts Some thought they might be the guardians of the ancient emperor whose tomb was nearby Maybe it was the long-dead emperor himself In March 1974 the farmers were digging a well near Xi’an China About 12 feet 3 7 meters down they struck something They cleared the dirt from around the object A face appeared Terrified they soon saw the face was not that of a ghost at all It was an amazingly real-looking terracotta head They dug deeper and found other large pieces of hard baked clay These appeared to be the broken parts of an ancient warrior statue
