Posted on 10/13/2006 3:52:54 PM PDT by blam
Ancient warriors cemetery discovered in C. China
www.chinaview.cn 2006-10-13 15:48:55
ZHENGZHOU, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese archaeologists have discovered a warriors cemetery dating back to the Warring State (475-221 B.C.) in central China's Henan Province.
The graveyard was found during implementation of a culture relics protection project at Wuligang Hill of Tangyin County.
The warriors cemetery covers an area of 200,000 square meters where more than 200 tombs had already been unearthed. There is an estimation of 500 tombs in the cemetery, according to the archaeologists.
"No funeral objects were unearthed. The tomb owners were all young male people, " said Kong Demin, an official with local archaeology department, adding the clues proves that the tombs were warriors tombs.
"The tombs, all in same construction form, are lining up in order," he said. This also indicates the area was used as warriors cemetery.
Archaeologists had discovered some tombs near the area in 1982,the expert said.
During the excavations in 1982, many skeletons with wound marks from knife-cuts or arrow-hits were unearthed from the tombs, he added.
"A famous war between ancient Chinese kingdoms, involved over 100,000 warriors, occurred at a battlefield, where Tangyin county lies, in 257 B.C.," said Hao Benxing, researcher with the Henan Provincial Institute of Culture Relics and Archaeology. Enditem
Editor: Wang Yan
www.chinaview.cn 2006-10-13 16:43:42
SHIJIAZHUANG, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese archaeologists have unearthed seven large tombs, including a grave of aristocrats, dating back 2,000 years in North China's Hebei Province.
The seven tombs, six belonging to the Warring State (475-221 B.C.) and one belonging to the Eastern Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD), were found at a construction site in the Xuanhua District of Zhangjiakou City.
According to archaeologists from local archaeology research institute, more than 20 pieces of jade articles, bronze items, lacquer work and pottery objects were unearthed from the tombs.
All the tombs were well formed with chamber size ranging from two to five square meters. The owners of the Han tomb were a couple and owners of other tombs were buried individually.
The owner of the No. 2 tomb, the largest, was found in a coffin with outside cover, indicating his high social status of noble during the time, the archaeologists said.
Grave robbers had broken into the tomb, stealing many funerary objects and causing serious damage. Fortunately, the coffin remained intact, they said.
The tomb was of great value in the study of the culture, social development and funeral customs of Warring State and the Han Dynasty, the experts said.
Measures have been taken to protect the tombs. Enditem
Editor: Wang Yan
Early photograph of modern-day moron.
Opinion:
We need someone bent more toward Genghis' war philosophy for the war on terror than the spineless fools we have now.
Obviously there is no tomb. George Bush invented it as an excuse for his archaeologist buddies to invade Mongolia.
I was deployed to Uzbekistan 2003-04. I listened to beautiful English-speaking Uzbek girls tell me what a great man `Temujin' was. Genghis Khan, they said, was only a title. An older Uzbek woman observed, sadly, "That's our problem here in Central Asia: the only people we truly admire are poets and conquerors."
These young women spoke several languages, were Western oriented (and clothed), hated and feared Taliban-style Islam. But if I noticed an Uzbek with blond hair, that according to them was a legacy of `Alexander the Macedonian'. Another conqueror.
No sign of the Uzbek Adams or Jefferson or Madison.
12 replies and no picture of William Shatner yelling "KHAN!!!"??????
Yeah, what's up with that?
Instead of the scourge of civilization, Mongolians see Genghis as not just the founder of the Mongolian state, but as a force for progress and development during the Middle Ages, a leader whose legacy still has profound implications today, especially now that Mongolia is a democracy.Oh, yeah, right, force for progress and development...
By 1226, Khan ruled an empire that stretched from Poland in the west to Korea in the east and from Vietnam in the south to Russia's Arctic Ocean shores in the north. Yet it was not complacency that slowed the Mongol leader; it was age. Over sixty and in failing health, Khan attempted to return to Mongolia from a campaign to put down a revolt in China but died during his journey. Shortly before his death, he placed one of his sons in charge of the army and directed hi[m] to slaughter the Chinese rebels after their defeat.
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Mongols showed them how eradication is done. They "erased" the whole Baghdad.
"pretending it [blond hair] came from a dead Macedonian king is cooler."
I believe Russia occupied Central Asia long before communism. In my master's thesis I made mention of the 1916 draft riots in Karshi, Uzbekistan (14,000 killed in a single day!). Never dreamed that years later I'd be stationed just down the street, so to speak.
Anyway, my last haircut in country was provided by a blond girl. When I asked her if she was Russian, she replied, "Nyet! Ya Uzbyechka!" Seems one parent (I forget which) was Russian, but she was born and raised in Karshi, and that meant, by golly, that she was Uzbek.
Genghiz Khan mega BUMP
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