2,400-year-old horse and chariot pit unearthed in China

Nov 15, 2017 4:51 PM

TheArchaeologistIsIn

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Sauce: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-11/14/c_136749918.htm

Their version of a scrap yard?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But why?

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I know where Hela is getting her new army from!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The wheels look like engines from helicarrier... you sure it's a chariot. The crash would explain all those skeletons

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I’d hate to win something in that raffle

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Amazing how well those little numbered tickets have been preserved.

8 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

As someone studying archaeology, this is really neato.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well that's fucking metal

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Wow, that's amazing. I love some good history stories.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Salvage lot.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thestrals?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

NOOOOOOOOO NOT THE HORSES!!!! -cries-

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So what do they do next? Do the leave it as is because it's too fragile to move or can they unearth it and display it in a museum?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don’t know about this site, but I worked at a similar one in Anyang and they simply constructed a museum around it!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

/a/mVqjf All i can think when I see this

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

are the horses going to be okay?

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

yes, they're just resting

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

A little calcium and some polishing and they'll be primed and ready to go for the skeleton chariots in the Skeleton War.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

we shall ride Chrome and Shiny in VALHALLA.... opps wrong culture..

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I thought we had a pothole problem. Evolution

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Are the horses going to be okay?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's like a junk yard where you can just come pick out a new horse leg when your horse leg breaks.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Looks like a Bloodborne boss level

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And here comes the GIF with the hatchet through the skull any minute now.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well that's....unsettling.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This is cool and slightly creepy.

8 years ago | Likes 68 Dislikes 1

Only slightly!?

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

yes.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Is this a new dark souls game?

8 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

Definitely looks like

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

If bonewheels could somehow form together to make a horse driven bone chariot of death I would be very, very afraid.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Reminds me of The Executioner's Chariot from DS2

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

What do they mean by chariot pit why are they all crammed together like that in a pit?

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Sacrificial victims, probably to honor/accompany deceased nobility.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

To serve the deceased as they would do in life. Chariots were the indicator of prestige in those days.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Ah cool

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But the earth is only 2,017 years old.

8 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 3

Check and mate *dusts hands off*

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Can you believe this ferkochte goy? It's 5778 years old!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Pit, mass grave; potato, tomato.

8 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 1

A bit too neatly arranged, plus chariots are really valuable.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

So the deep room is filled with live horse skeletons?

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I mean, it's not a mass-grave in the usual sense - a pile of nameless war victims - but something ceremonial.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

There are ceremonial mass graves in multiple cultures.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The sheer number of horse skeletons in that pit frightens me, and makes me a bit sad actually.

8 years ago | Likes 315 Dislikes 7

I totally understand.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I wonder if the horses were braught in alive before closing the tomb. Tightly packed like in a trailer and then sealed. Makes me shudder.

8 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

122

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

There is at least 12

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

122

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Here is something to make you more sad, that is only like .0000007 of all horses that have died since then

8 years ago | Likes 124 Dislikes 2

I feel like that should make you LESS sad, like, "oh, I guess this isn't that many dead horses after all."

8 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

Glass half full kinda guy?

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Pit half full?

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Why?

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Thick

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

They were probably all killed

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

horse skeletons are his secret fetish and its becoming increasingly difficult for his coworkers to overlook his obvious arousal

8 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

I also hate when my secret horse skeleton fetish is revealed and it becomes increasingly difficult for my coworkers to overlook my arousal.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Don't we all?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Call the Necromancers

8 years ago | Likes 387 Dislikes 2

I'm here, but i'm afraid if i send these i to battle my enemies will just be beating a dead horse.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You rang?

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I appreciate that you just had that very specific pic.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Diablo 2? Yeassssss. Been smashing s12 on d3 but i always play a little median mod on d2 every now and again

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Are they gonna remaster this?

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Nostalgia!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

funny, I'm playing as a necro in Path of Diablo right now

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 2

Hopefully botting right?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Fuck yea, D2 is my shit

8 years ago | Likes 46 Dislikes 0

Fuuuck Im so getting D2 again. Was thinking WoW but, holy shit, I miss Diablo more!

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Yup, shits all over d3.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

Speaking of, nice of them to make SC2 WoL free but not cool to make the necromancer something you have to pay for.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Bone wall just to mess with people

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Was that the proto Mei ice wall?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And Iron Maiden...

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Big Bad Bone Daddy Nagash. I hated the End Times but he was a fuckin pimp in the end times.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Are the end times worth a read?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Personally, no, but it's because they shit on some of my favorite parts of the lore, but there is some good stuff. Nagash, Sigmar/Franz etc

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I might give them a read then. I do like me some Nagash.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

laggamancer I WANT ALL THE MINIONS

8 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 0

You could have all these ??? But they would all die at the end in one wave shock from Baal... so pretty useless at the end...

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 4

Not with 40+ points in skills.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Add an inventory full of charms. Level 48-fucking skeletons!!!

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I finished the game the first time with a necro with the armor that doubled your skill points. (Got it from a saved game in a magazine cd)

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

This. Summoners were amazing when dealing with Uber Mephisto.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fichtre.... now I want to try that....

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I was just talking with a friend the other day about this issue. Everyone on the QA team mentioned this. No one listened.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Most people didn't know you could up the ram to a full gig in the settings. That fixed my issues.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Dude, on launch day, 128MB of RAM was considered a bit hoity toity.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Yeah, it was. But as the updates and expansion were released, they upped the maximum amount of memory you could allow the game to use.

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