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Visual depiction of Qin Shi Huang

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Vol. V · Deified Humans

Qin Shi Huang

first emperor of China who sought immortality through alchemical elixirs


his terracotta army arrayed in endless rows behind him as he faces eternity alone

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This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how this culture has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.