For his tomb, the emperor built a sprawling underground mausoleum that’s never been excavated, though 8,000 ceramic soldiers and horses known as the Terracotta Army have been discovered since the 1970s near the burial mound.Īncient writings claim the underground palace had a ceiling mimicking the night sky with pearls as stars and rivers of mercury. If he couldn’t live forever, Qin Shi Huang wanted to at least ensure that he would be well-equipped in the afterlife. Ironically, Qin Shi Huang's supposed cures may have helped bring on his death at the age of 39. As scientists know now, mercury is poisonous. What do people think about this card I have a deck built around a few specific cards that could use some more life-gain. One town called "Duxiang" reported back to the emperor that its inhabitants hadn’t yet found the elixir of life, while another town in the modern-day Shandong Province in eastern China offered an herb from a local mountain.Īrchaeologists and historians already had some idea that Qin Shi Huang was obsessed with immortality.Īccording to Chemistry World, the emperor was thought to have consumed cinnabar (or mercury sulfide) in the hopes it would prolong his life. The wooden slips even contained some responses from villages. : As the ability resolves, youll shuffle Elixir of Immortality into its owners library directly from the battlefield, if its still. If you have a way to untap it, you can activate the ability multiple times in response to itself. "It required a highly efficient administration and strong executive force to pass down a government decree in ancient times, when transportation and communication facilities were undeveloped," Zhang told Xinhua. Paying the activation cost of Elixir of Immortalitys ability doesnt cause it to leave the battlefield.
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