When watching the videos on ancient china I was really interested in the terra cotta statues; were they made from one mould? or maybe they had something that made them more of an individual. Compared to the Royal Tombs of Ur where they sacrificed everyone for the princess so they would be with her in the afterlife, they have statues in the place of human lifes. I think that has a better effect anyways because one you are not murdering people and also since they are statues they out live humans making them immortal warriors. It would seem that because of all of the terra cotta warriors, swords,jade jewelry, and jade armour that the prince must have been a very respected and powerful man. Those masks they found were huge! and with such portruding eyes. That statue of the deer made me think of the Ice maiden's culture, and Egypt because of the importance of animals being shown in this culture as well.
So I found out the Terra Cotta warriors do have slight differences in their faces and wear.
It gives them more personality and a life like quality so it would be like the prince and his wife had a whole army guarding them even after death.
In the Bronze Age video I was amazed by the sword that somehow popped back into shape from being bent. It almost seems like this tomb was enchanted. The most fantastic piece to me were the bells. They were used for ceremonies. It would be really cool to hear them being played during that time period and see everyone wearing traditional garb, if only time travel did exist, just to secretly listen to them... then leave with out a trace(hopefully).
Heres a Bronze bell, but they were placed with many other bells and played together.
I looked up to see if I could hear them being used and I found a video in which traditioned bells are being played.
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