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Life sized Terra C otta soldiers found at an archaeological dig here.

T he first Qin Dynasty ruler Shihuangdi ordered the army to be built. China was newly unified. Qin Shihuangdi wanted to maintain this unification during the afterlife. Life sized Terra C otta soldiers found at an archaeological dig here. .

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Life sized Terra C otta soldiers found at an archaeological dig here.

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  1. The first Qin Dynasty ruler Shihuangdi ordered the army to be built. China was newly unified. Qin Shihuangdi wanted to maintain this unification during the afterlife. Life sized Terra Cotta soldiers found at an archaeological dig here.

  2. The Rosetta Stone is a stone with writing on it in two languages (Egyptian and Greek), using three scripts (hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek). • The Rosetta Stone was found in 1799. • The Rosetta Stone was found by French soldiers who were rebuilding a fort in Egypt. • The Rosetta Stone was found in a small village • the Delta called Rosetta (Rashid). • After many years of studying the Rosetta Stone and other examples of ancient Egyptian writing, Jean-François Champollion deciphered hieroglyphs in 1822. • The Rosetta Stone was carved in 196 B.C..

  3. Breaking through the sealed door, Carter found a passageway filled with stone and rubble. Clearing this passageway revealed another sealed door marked with the royal impressions of Tutankhamun. Carter was sure he had found the king's tomb, but he was afraid it may have been pillaged - its contents removed. On November 26th Carter, with Lord Carnarvon at his side, started to break through this second sealed door. It was, as Carter described, "the day of days, the most wonderful that I have ever lived through":

  4. Otzi was found by two German tourists, Helmut and Erika Simon, on September 19, 1991. The body was at first thought to be a modern corpse, like several others which had been recently found in the region. It was roughly recovered by the Austrian authorities and taken to Innsbruck, where its true age was finally discovered.

  5. Mohenjo-Daro, which scholars believe means "hill of the dead," was an ancient Indian city located on the west bank of the Indus River in the Indus-Sarasvati region. The ruins of Mohenjo-Daro were discovered in 1922.

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