Dont know if any of you guys outside of the UK have seen this but I cant wait to watch a bit of Chinese history!! On Channel 4 @21.00 Link to the trailer. . http://www.cicc.tv/en/content.asp?id=19 ''With exclusive access to new archaeological finds, The First Emperor reveals the secrets of one of the most powerful men who ever lived. Qin Shi Huang Di forged an empire that outlasted Rome by a thousand years and ruled over ten times more people than the pharaohs. He unified the country we know as China, built the Great Wall, and his tomb - as large as the Great Pyramid at Giza - was guarded by an 8,000-strong, life-size terracotta army. Yet few in the West even know his name. For the first time on Western television, and combining documentary and dramatic reconstruction, The First Emperor brings him to life after two millennia and sets out to discover whether the extraordinary stories that surround him could actually be true - was he really buried in an immense tomb surrounded by a vast model of his world, including rivers of flowing mercury? Until the 1970s all that was known about the First Emperor came from one document written a century after his death. But when farmers digging a well uncovered terracotta figures, everything changed. After 30 years of digging, the full scope of the tomb is becoming apparent - the burial complex stretches for seven square kilometres, while the tomb itself is the size of a football pitch. The First Emperor features interviews with experts, led by Professor Jeffrey Riegel, who are conducting exciting new investigations at the site, including ground-penetrating radar and soil samples that, for the first time, reveal the tomb structures and confirm that the stories of rivers of mercury may be true. Dir: Nic Young; Prod: Lucy Van Beek; Exec Prods: Richard Bradley, Bill Locke; Prod Co: Lion TV''
Yep, it's on tonight. It was shown in Canada not long ago, a friend from over there was telling me about this. Thanks for the reminder, I was looking forward to this.
Erm... Jerry1979, 9 posts in a row?! -spam Please do not spam -bash What an amazing programme! Hope there's gonna be more programmes like this. Unearthed in 1974 and they're still digging today, damn that is long...
Jerry1979 - WTF!!! totaly unrelated posts!!! Back to the programme!! proud to be chinese with history like that!!
