Tomb Scan Reveals Buried Treasure (China's First Emperor)

CNN ^ | 10-20-2005

[blam]

Tomb scan reveals buried treasure

Thursday, October 20, 2005; Posted: 1:02 a.m. EDT (05:02 GMT)

Some of the terra cotta soldier statues found around Qin's tomb.

BEIJING, China (AP) -- A magnetic scan of the unopened tomb of China's first emperor has detected a large number of coins, suggesting Emperor Qin was buried with his state treasury, a news report said Thursday.

[KC_Conspirator]

I guess this means "When you die, you CAN take it with you"?

[Ciexyz]

Most interesting.

[Ciexyz]

Original link no longer working. Just a thought: When you post these threads, kindly ping SunkenCiv to ping the Gods, Graves and Glyphs thread.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

"When you post these threads, kindly ping SunkenCiv to ping the Gods, Graves and Glyphs thread."

Okay, didn't realize that's how it works.

[blam]

Royal Chinese Treasure Discovered

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. I think this is an oldie, so...

Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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[Ciexyz]

Thanks for reposting the link to the original article. I enjoyed reading it.