2026-10-21 · South China Morning Post
🔮 Terracotta Warriors could be mainly built by women and children, batch fingerprints show
Qin dynasty artisans included women and children assigned to pottery crafting, legal records and physical evidence show
Some 5 metres underground near one of China’s oldest cities lies the life-size army of thousands of terracotta warriors.
Now, a new study shows that a portion of the terracotta warriors was largely made by adult women and minors, not solely by men as previously thought. mixed