I visit a museum about once a year. Luckily, I picked a good one for 2009: Atlanta's High Museum of Art, where the Chinese Terracotta Soliders are on exhibit right now. The story is an amazing one: over 2000 years ago, the emperor of the Qin dynasty created a world of terracotta figures, from soliders to horses to musicians, to lead in the afterlife. In 1974, his burial complex was discovered by a Chinese farmer. Today, January 2009, I stood face-to-face with eight of these 2000-year-old, 6'' tall soldiers. Pretty cool.
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