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Arts and Culture ( destination three: Italy )

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  WHY HELLLOOO!! did you miss me? ;)   You took a while to get here from China😕 but  Im glad you decided to join me to yet another journey!😆  and luckily for you we're going to the most beautiful places on earth - ITALY!!! you better get ready and buckle up because this one is going to be a rollercoaster of emotions!   we're talking about  Pompeii - an ancient Roman city! Pompeii is a vast archaeological site in southern Italy ,near the coast of the Bay of Naples. After a devastating volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD, Pompeii was buried under ash and left us with sad but extraordinary archaeological views . Although  Vesuvius  is well known to be a Volcano now,  Vesuvius  was considered to be just a common mountain during ancient times, and local people were completely unaware of the risk they were going to encounter.  Before its main eruption, there had been earthquakes in the same area, however Romans keep on spending their lives there without paying much attention
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Arts and Culture ( destination two : China)

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 AAALLL ABOARD!! come on hurry, were about to sale off to China you don't want to miss it, do you?!  what are we doing in China? well we're specifically headed to Lintong District Shaanxi to visit the GREATEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL  FIND OF THE 20TH CENTURY !  Haven't a lightest guess? I'm talking about the Terra-Cotta warriors ! !  A terra-cotta army of more than 8,000 life-size soldiers guarded the burial site of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang.  The Terra-Cotta Warriors were only discovered in 1974  in  Xian, China . and the funny thing is they were found completely by accident !! The Terracotta Army was discovered  when a farmer  uncovered fragments of pottery when digging a well. This pottery led to the discovery of the first warrior of the famous Terracotta Army. Quite the find isnt it ? The discovery of the Terracotta Warriors was a shock to everyone because there are no historical records of them, or of an underground army.  They sat untouched underground for
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Arts and Culture ( destination one : Napa Nui )

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Very early on in humanity, dating back to the stone age, humans have always had a love for expressing their creative skills and imaginations, like cave paintings : And with time these skills improved and started to contain more value and meaning, each drawing and  scribble had a story behind it! so we humans decided to define these unique creations of ours, from sculptures, to musical notes under the name of   Art !   In this blog ,the main type of art I will be talking about is Archaeology !! so lets go on a little journey together shall we? ;)  We shall first travel to..... (drumrolls pleeease) ..... EASTER ISLAND!🙌 Easter Island or Rapa Nui is an island in the Pacific ocean, and what makes this island so special you may ask... see for yourself 👀 Yep, human like sculptures made by the Rapa Nui  people called   Moai   fill this island !!   They're said to represent chiefs with supernatural powers sent by gods , so that we humans can take these supernatural abilities and use th
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