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...magnificent buried army of life-sized terra cotta soldiers, rank on rank, some 7,000 strong-charioteers behind chariots and horses, mounted cavalrymen, kneeling archers, thousands of spearmen, each individually sculptured and fully detailed. Scholars determined that the terra cotta army was commissioned by Qin Shihuangdi, the first Emperor of China, as a guard for his tomb, which lies nearly a mile to the west of the dig, under Mount...
Some of the finest objects in the show come from the tomb of Fu Hao (circa 1300 B.C.), which was unearthed at Anyang only four years ago. A formidable woman, Fu Hao was the consort of the Emperor Wu Ding; on occasion, she led his armies into battle. Her tomb contained 200 bronze vessels, some 600 sculptures and ritual objects of jade and stone. Most charming among the bronzes is a pitcher in the shape of an owl; among the jades is a stylized crested bird with a sweeping tail that any art deco designer could be proud...
...unify his kingdom, the legendary warrior Prithvi Narain Shah observed the precarious nature of his country's foreign relations. Nepal, he wrote in his "Golden Sayings," was like "a yam wedged between two huge rocks": to the south lay the vastness of India, while to the north, the "Emperor of the Southern Sea" ruled the even greater dominion of China...
...Bend in the River (1979). The confused longings and demagogy of Michael de Freitas, a Trinidadian cult leader who was hanged for murder in 1975, are reflected in Guerrillas (1975). There are touches of pathos in the studiously detached account of De Freitas' career as a contemporary Emperor Jones. The problems of fitting the ritual masks of modernism over Africa's colonial scars are treated with impatient sympathy. But in Argentina, Naipaul seems to walk on a decaying planet where a succession of carnivores feed on a gullible mass and a demoralized middle class. It is a place...
...Sussex boarding school he was taunted for his social lapses and called a liar by classmates who refused to believe his tales of Africa and the Middle East. All through Eton and Oxford, Thesiger dreamed of returning to the scenes of his childhood. A break came in 1930 when Emperor Haile Selassie invited him to attend his coronation in Addis Ababa. After ten days of festivities, the impatient guest slipped off on his first caravan. It took him through the unadministered territory of the Danakil, "Slender figures in short loincloths, their mops of hair dressed with melted butter, they...