Mausoleum Ancient Culture
Mausoleum in every ancient culture aspect, are considered as very important building for their afterlives. The mausoleum is an exterior self-supporting building, which is built as a monument, with burial rooms or burial rooms for the dead or the people. When someone dies, the body is simply buried or thrown away. With the development of human society, superstition has been gradually implemented, burial gradually becomes an important thing. Therefore, the tomb came into being and developed into an important part of the hierarchy. Most ancient people believe when people died their souls were still alive, leaving their bodies for the other world and sometimes go back to the human world to influence life. Ancient Egypt and China are the two countries
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The construction of the mausoleum began in 246 BC, this is the year where Qin Shi Huang becoming the emperor, use over 720,000 prisoners was sent there and doing the construction, almost eight times the number of the people who built Khufu in Pyramid. Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is the first large-scale China history, design perfect imperial mausoleum. In 221 BC, the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty spent 15 years conquering six other states and unifying China. (1, Sun). Qin Shihuang is one of the most controversial figures in Chinese history. During the Qin dynasty, he built the Great Wall to protect from the enemy attack and unified the writing system. However, his burning of books and burying of scholars cause more than four hundred of scholars being killed, resulting in many historical documents …show more content…
They are seen as the incarnation of god. They built a huge mausoleum for themselves, Pyramid, and Pyramid became a symbol of the power of the pharaohs. Because these huge tombs are similar in shape to the Chinese character "Jin", Chinese call it "Pyramid"". In Khufu’s Pyramid, there is also a Sphinx guarding the Pyramid The construction of Khufu’s pyramid began in 2589 BC and last 10 to 20 years. Different than Mausoleum of the first Qin emperor, most workers were farmer during that time, due to the flooding of the Nile River. (1 NOVA) The pyramid contains an estimated over 2,300,000 of limestone and granite, each stone is cutting into almost same shape and weight about 2.5 tons, the heaviest might weight more than 100 tons. (1, Calvert) Inside the pyramid, the archaeologist found a lot of funerary objects and mummy. The mummification took few step processes. First, they insert a hook through a hole near the nose and pull out part of the brain. Second, they make a cut on the left side of the body near the tummy. Third, remove all internal organs. Fourth, Egyptians buried the mummy in small pits in the desert, the heat and dry sand will dehydrate the bodies even faster. Fifth, they place the lungs, intestine, stomach, and liver inside the canopic jar, the only organ they remove out is the brain because they considered the brain contain useless stuff and it’s
The construction of the mausoleum began in 246 BC, this is the year where Qin Shi Huang becoming the emperor, use over 720,000 prisoners was sent there and doing the construction, almost eight times the number of the people who built Khufu in Pyramid. Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is the first large-scale China history, design perfect imperial mausoleum. In 221 BC, the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty spent 15 years conquering six other states and unifying China. (1, Sun). Qin Shihuang is one of the most controversial figures in Chinese history. During the Qin dynasty, he built the Great Wall to protect from the enemy attack and unified the writing system. However, his burning of books and burying of scholars cause more than four hundred of scholars being killed, resulting in many historical documents …show more content…
They are seen as the incarnation of god. They built a huge mausoleum for themselves, Pyramid, and Pyramid became a symbol of the power of the pharaohs. Because these huge tombs are similar in shape to the Chinese character "Jin", Chinese call it "Pyramid"". In Khufu’s Pyramid, there is also a Sphinx guarding the Pyramid The construction of Khufu’s pyramid began in 2589 BC and last 10 to 20 years. Different than Mausoleum of the first Qin emperor, most workers were farmer during that time, due to the flooding of the Nile River. (1 NOVA) The pyramid contains an estimated over 2,300,000 of limestone and granite, each stone is cutting into almost same shape and weight about 2.5 tons, the heaviest might weight more than 100 tons. (1, Calvert) Inside the pyramid, the archaeologist found a lot of funerary objects and mummy. The mummification took few step processes. First, they insert a hook through a hole near the nose and pull out part of the brain. Second, they make a cut on the left side of the body near the tummy. Third, remove all internal organs. Fourth, Egyptians buried the mummy in small pits in the desert, the heat and dry sand will dehydrate the bodies even faster. Fifth, they place the lungs, intestine, stomach, and liver inside the canopic jar, the only organ they remove out is the brain because they considered the brain contain useless stuff and it’s