how did all the mercury get there, and how do we know its there in the first place?

@@beckylieb2637 there’s machine out there that can detect the mercury (I’m no professional on this so I can’t tell you which machine), I’m sure any other encyclopaedia out there will explain the process better than me too How did they manage to put that amount of mercury in there? Just like all ancient infrastructure, the Pyramids, the Great Wall, this tomb, Machu Picchu, Angkor Wat, can we explain how they build all that thousand years ago? I don think we can unless we travel back in time and see it with our own eyes, that’s the beauty of history, rich and mystery

The excess in building these tombs lmfaooo but good call not digging em up

@@sextuplemillionsellersfan7961 Imagine thousands of thousands of workers dying from mercury poisoning just trying to fill the "oceans and rivers" of mercury in the tomb.

Well said~

Too bad he's not alive to enjoy it.

@@wareforcoin5780 you take what you can get I guess.

maichiki yiist I’m a chinese and he’s better off dead lol. As far as I’ve known, the emperor is a brutal and merciless emperor, enslaving his people like mere slaves and lifestocks.

Confucius and Laozi are still remembered (and LOVED!) by people around the world, but for that they didn't need huge tombs built on the backs of countless miserable people.

G Wang that’s because their teachings are part of our academic curriculum 😅 for example「天網恢恢 疏而不漏」lol even overseas Chinese like us are required to memorise their quotes for our exams🤣

I remember it was like 700+thousand people and took 39years to finish

And suffering and death

38 years and countless lives. But at least they were apparently convicts and criminals.

Apparently each worker only had to sculpt a replica of himself, overlooked by supervisors to ensure perfection, after he'd finished ,if deemed a good builder they'd get more work on horses, carriges etc.some were so devoted they continued building more , obv it was done over decades but still a magnificent achievment. I still don't believe that no one can escavate because mercury levels, I'm sure archaeologists would wear suits, there's no saying what treasures to archaeology, ancient alien theorists , & the enrichment of Chinese culture. The lost ark could be there, the holy grail. There's unlimited possibilities. Had this been anywhere but China it woulda been escavated long ago. Also the wealth it would bring to China, imo the Europeans know they're gonna discover the cinnese were the master race. Hence why the authorities haven't ever pushed to open it. Loads of tombs have been found woth mercury & it is only a roumour. Apparently tens of thousands ( maybe all the builders) were sacrificed. The only way that will be excavated if China falls. Which imo it will never. There's people are so devoted. & fantastic workers. Imagine the treasures in that tomb.? How can we believe because of mercury they never deemed it safe?

Shaanxi my name shianxin

He became the first emperor of China, I think he has lived his life to the best that he can

Back in the day, death was something that came to very young individuals and was way more present in their lives than in theirs. It was all around you. You would have lost many family members and loved ones between 0 to 35 years of age, so it was natural that one day it could be you. Preparing your tomb before death suddenly stroke you was a must. In todays society, people rarely die suddenly or younger than 35 so people never think of death.

He had achieved all he could. The most powerful man in the world in those days. He could only aspire to immortality after. Why do you think people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are going to space. They probably have given millions to slowing aging, genetic manipulation or cryogenics or faster than light travel to slow down time.

It's just you.

If you can call thousands of people worked to death and then making it an achievement…🤦🏻‍♂️

hahahahaha

yes they actually consider budget after that XD, resulting to just dig deep inside natural mountain

Well what about don't kill your own people sort of king, and don't destroy cultures.

Ha ha ha ha ha

Asiatic clay curved soldier and bronze for carriage plus horses not to mention modern depiction of the so said people make this BS stink to high heaven. It a fact.

I love you so much, hope you will marry me and move to China together!

@Philip Thomas Pyramids build by Whiteys! that what they want to hide

Philip Thomas, first of all, I would not be certain that what your read is accurate; secondly, you suggested the Pyramids are made by white people, lets assume that white people was here before "Asians", which must be at least earlier than 1046BC which history have clear and detailed descriptions, and there were skeletons sculptures being found even earlier than that in xian. And this Pyramids are only 2000 years old and assumed to be made by Qin Dynesty. Third, what ever people thinks, Chinese citizens are made of mutiple ethics and race, you can find "white people" here for generations at west China and Northan China, untill today, Urumxi is still majorly residented by Chinese citizens you would reconginize as "White ", So it would not be a suprise that anyone found White mummies in Urumxi anyway right? Its their home! (ps: we are talking about xian here, which is alot eastern compare to xinjiang, which is vast , xianwas residented by the majority ethics here from history can prove.) Last of all, whats the point of hiding a history fact which have no value to the govt? Its pointless.

Well I was the first emperor of China this happened around 10000 bc or further back probably like 20000 bc!

Gary LeFevers : curious why you are interested in Chinese history ? 🙂

Watch Kings and Generals, a jewel of a history channel on youtube

Know the past or your doomed to repeat it

😂😂😂

That's why it was forbidden to come closer and had an army to guard. Of course, that's before your dynasty collapsed.

And digging pretty often🙃🙃

Tomb Dancer

its'great

LOL. thers propaganda innyendo here

Stock whippings. =(

Barried tombs or mud floodcities?

Or perhaps y'all could consider budgetary constraints of documentaries (which have a much lower sales potential than movies)

Poor guy that must of hurt

lol, I also came from that meme

Stop the cap!

I'm planning this year now that they've reopened borders. Tibet, Mongol and Yunnan are also recommended.

They didn't forget, they thought only a complete helmet will care that we didn't mention this.

Really ? Woah...

A bit like spending squillions on arms/ego fuelled space trips while millions go hungry/thirsty in the 21st century, I suppose.

Then you should go and see it for real.

@@sverre371 I don't have $ to travel. Although u are right, I should try to see what I can. I love history but I don't get to go out of my area to see it... only on tv and KZfaq, etc do I get to view things like that.

There’s the first emperor’s tomb but no one enter due to high levels of mercury and problems of entering without damaging the artifacts and such. What’s inside is his coffin in the middle of a huge map of his empire with mercury as the rivers, along with personal belongings and worth.

I believe the First Emperor of China is not soley human descend. Those Terracota Warriors are not human sized but giants in nature. If my memory is still correct, the emperor sought after immortality and cry out to the gods of his ancient times bu not to the True of God of heaven and earth. I didn't understand this back when I watched about the First Emperor but now I gain more knowledge about who these people could be that rule over the Chinese people. We are told many people died who build the Great Wall of China, but who was their master that would work people to the death? What I understand now is that these rulers were of the descendant of giants. Giants do not have a soul like normal human kind does. This may explain why they go to elaborate effort to construct such a magnificient tomb for their after life. Again, if my memory is correct, after the Forbidden Palace was completed didn't fire come down from heaven and burned many of the houses down in the Palace Complex? It was like the judgement of the True God upon that emperor pride of his achievements. Why was it such a Forbidden City unless there's secrets that these entities don't want the people to find out their dark doings behind those walls. The symbol of China is the Dragon. Behind the Red Dragon are principalities and powers, spiritual wickedness in high places ruling the people with forced. I was told that Xi Ping could be the descendant of the giant bloodline. I did see some pictures in this doc of men who facial features look like the Dragon. Their eyes look slanted like the serpent's feature. We are told in the Bible that Satan is that serpent and giants are part of the serpent seed. Giants came about because the holy angels of God who kept not their holy abode in heaven came to earth mated with the daughters of men and they produce hybrid call giants. The giants began to terrorize the people because of their immense size and power and even devoured the people as food. So I wouldn't be surprised if many people did become the food to giants in ancient China but just erased from history. Human sacrifice is a big thing to these false gods. Since these giants are the descendants of angelic / human mixed, they are greater in intelligent. This explain Mega Structures all over the world is not man made but the descendant of the offspring of fallen angels.

One day, people in the future will say the same thing about us now LOL! XD

Power were given by the people not the emperor has had the power of himself or herself. Without loyalty and respect of trust the citizens can overturn the immoral emperor any time. They are just paper tigers only. It's the people want peace not fear of the emperor in abusing of his or her might. What's that if the citizens overthrow him or her of his or her immoral cruel and injustice rule. Same to the present leaders of any countries.

@@humbleforest In those days being an emperor was equal to who has the biggest military, people couldn’t vote and emperors were just born into imperial family… so no - they couldn’t be overthrown. It was all about the privileged, warlords and nobles sharing the power between themselves😕

@@remi_gio Emperors could be overthrown as there were many dynasties one after another. The three kingdoms had three kings or emperors, later they were split into many provinces, until the last Manchu emperor was overthrown by modern dressed Dr Sun Yet San by cutting off the taboo long pigtail. A few years later after he died during the opium wars, his Guo Mimg Tang was overthrown by the Communist Party of China, under Mao Tze Tung.

I understand the curiosity and how much we can learn, however as an outsider who has been to Xi'an twice (where this video is based in) merely oxygen will destroy the paint of these ancient artefacts.

I lived during the Tongue Dynasty

Agree.. everything is a tomb or a temple..!

Now there is 7 😂

And now even more :-(

.. and now, only 4

Skip to the very end and then restart the video - no ads.

lol its a pyramid but now it resembles of man made mountain or hills. search qin shi huang mausoleum. i guess they want to follow japan, one of the most important tomb still remained buried lock shape burial (japan), qin shi huang tomb (china)

Terra Cotta army was paraded across the world in a world tour a while back. I didn't even know of the Qin Dynasty's existence, but then again, Chinese history is not my forte. During this lockdown, I learnt a lot about the history... "China" was never really a single country, but made up of different groups and lineage etc...We are using modern day methods to postulate the history... and even in some of this info in the video is actually not correct. It is estimation...

Head towards the airport/Xianyang area from Xian city, you can't miss them.

Wow, What a great and intriguing documentary. After COVID19 is controlled, will definitely check this out!!

That's what they want. Hide the history.

which one? there are hundreds.

brutal? how about other place back to 2300 years ago?

I wonder if they found diamonds in that dept?

Me when I hire people to make me houses on Minecraft

shhhhh don't tell them that

China has unbroken lineage from ancient times to now, Egypt does not.

All the suffering for a privileged few.

@@brantemery : This is not true... it has been broken... I think people need to understand what is going on.. Just because people "look" the same race.. But technically, they are not. Not really. Some people see a split off... and rejoin back say another century or so, is not.. technically the same. Especially if one has inter-married. To put it into modern day words, imagine your great great grandfather marrying his great great grand cousin or other. Does that even make sense now ?

​@@MeiinUK Well, as it is, ideas about "race" are just an unscientific categorisation, grouping people together because they look similar; and it's really just used to reinforce prejudice or justify privilege. It isn't based on genetic lineage. As for an individual's heritage, if they are a descendant of a specific group of people who were (for example) in the region first, then the line is unbroken, anyway, even if they look different. The irony is that genetically, the genes controlling superficial appearance (particularly skin color) are a very small proportion of genes determining phenotype and have very little biological significance. Only very small genetic changes are needed to vary a person's appearance significantly. You can be very closely related to someone else yet look entirely different. The whole issue of appearance tends to be a human conceit, anyway.

coronavirus: yes u are welcome here

@@magicalgamer8080 more at your shithole now actually

Stop the cap.

Or not.

the problems are sometimes the lackeys. Maybe the leaders didn't mean it, the lackeys will do all the dirty work.

It is under all the sediment that has accumulated over time

Yeah shame none of it was true😂

@@skibumwannabe5492 what 😦

I thought that too. It was over a wet area, which could make the land weaker, prone to sag. Even with modern a buildings, swampy land sinks over time.

Good point! What if the contents and such have all slowly shifted downward. Since the dirt was packed, it may have functioned more like "rock on top of dirt" than "dirt mixing with other dirt".

Look and see what the Giza Plato is on its older than we know and amazing

@@gaslitworldf.melissab2897 look at the Mayan pyramids the are on man made land

Sinkholes

Maybe he was speaking for himself.

@Kevin Cheng Riiiiiiiight...because we're all mouthpieces, not people. ;-)

The First Emperor tomb is still remain intact. Its forbidden to entry by all means..

@@Avorizky And archeologists respect that primarily cos they fear mercury poisoning. Just saying

@Ben A huh?

I'm also in England, and thatch done to a high standard lasts hundreds of years, with just the outer layer being replaced every 25-50 years depending on the quality of the reed used. Building may have used natural materials, but they were built to last.

Ireland too. Great stuff to build with.

ANGOR WAT IS EVEN LARGER. SIZE IS NOT THE MEASURE OF CULTURAL IMPORTANCE ONLY-

@@ronwalker4849 Angor Wat is not a necropolis and two it is only 5 square km ! Size is everything as more artifacts will be found the very reason why archeologists have said that China will be the most important site for the next 200 years of archeology !

@Lord Voldemort Mercury was considered the elixir of eternal life in the old world. The primary reason why the First Emperor was getting mentally unstable and died at a young age as he was prescribe mercury to ingest by his physicians !

@Lord Voldemort This is how the story of Japan was born. The First Emperor dispatched a company of his soldiers to find the elixir of eternal life, knowing this was an impossible mission they were afraid to return fearing certain death from the Emperor's wrath and settled in a little island far away from the mainland which is today's the island of Japan.

This is a bad documentary, a lot of misinformed info.

@@TheExtraterrestrial99 maybe its ironically

Nice observation I agree

It would explain the Mercury

@@johnscanlon2598 the emperor Qin Shi Huang died from consuming mercury which he presumed to be the elixir of life.

You anglos are hilariously ignorant 😂

The dude *did* get buried with eight concubines, so perhaps they are not so far off the mark.

you've been influenced by that crappy Hollywood movie Returrn of the Mummy

Lol! But there was nothing crappy about any of that Mummy series - hilariously funny

The world is and has always been full of evil.

They wont dig it to respect the dead also full of mercury.

@@susie9893 check out the ride at universal studios Orlando Florida it’s awesome

That was some years ago there's no DJI yet :D

That's Tang dynasty, Marco Polo will be there 400 years after that time

@@weiliu3230 "Marco Polo's great-great-great-great-great grandfather"

And mercury.

Embarrassing really. But then again most documentary’s about China’s history are poorly made. So it’s not surprising.

Close enough these days

TheCase78 That’s the same as if In 4000 AD, they think September 11 happened in 200 AD 😂

Its the narrator's mistake. Should have been 202BC

Neil Price Wee wud and diss ad unss if id hat tcheineese moosig.

Its a hollow box with a string. Not that complex to invent, and likely around at this time already, even if it looked differently.