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Deep Dive: Who Crafted China’s Terracotta Army?
XI’AN, CHINA—Science Alert reports that an analysis of fingerprints preserved in the clay of a sample of soldiers from the Terracotta Army suggests that men, women, and children contributed to the work of assembling the sculptures. Discovered in 1974 by farmers digging a well about a mile away from the 2,200-year-old tomb of China’s Emperor Qin Shihuangdi, the Terracotta Army is made up of approximately 8,000 soldier statues bearing a wide variety of faces, hairstyles, and armor.
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