China's Lost Pyramids
2010-09-24 | 50 minutes
Plot Summary
In China, there exists an astonishing place. A burial ground to rival Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, where pyramid tombs of stupendous size are full of astonishing riches. In 221 BC, China's first Emperor united warring kingdoms into a nation that still exists today. To memorialise this achievement, he bankrupted the national treasury and oppressed thousands of workers to build one of the world’s biggest mortuary complexes. China's second dynasty, the Han, inherited the daunting challenge of building larger tombs to command respect and establish their right to rule without running the nation into the ground. Although no Han emperor's tomb has been opened, the tombs of lesser Han aristocrats have revealed astonishing things: complete underground palaces (including kitchens and toilets) and at least one corpse so amazingly well-preserved some believe Han tomb-builders knew how to "engineer immortality".
Cast
Recommendations
-
The Way to the Heart
-
Flow
-
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
-
Flow
-
Kamen Rider SD: Strange?! Kumo Otoko
-
Rent
-
Gunner
-
Asterix vs. Caesar
-
Aparajito
-
After the Pandemic
-
Parents
-
Damnation
-
Little Dixie
-
Les Petites Mains
-
War
-
Kill Shot
-
Scary Movie 4
-
National Family
-
Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar
-
My Life as a Dog
Similar Movies
-
A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy
-
Lost Heroes
-
Deadliest Crash: The Le Mans 1955 Disaster
-
My 1980's
-
The Lancaster at War
-
The Rise & Fall of Penn Station
-
Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party
-
Secrets in the Sky: The Untold Story of Skunk Works
-
The Knights Templar: From History To Legend
-
Terror in the Skies
-
POWER
-
National Memorial Day Concert
-
Acts of Violence
-
Plastic China
-
Maineland
-
Le Diable de la République : 40 ans de Front national
-
Ottoman Empire: The War Machine
-
Theory and Practice: Conversations with Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn
-
100 Years of Wrigley Field
-
D-Day: The Untold Stories