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Tourist Suffering From ‘Mental Illness’ Damages Two Of China’s 2,000-Year-Old Terracotta Warriors
China’s Terracotta Army, a remarkable collection of 8,000 clay sculptures of life-sized warriors, was constructed more than 2 ...
Tourist Damages 2,000 Year Old Terracotta Warriors
The Terracotta Army, discovered in 1974 by local farmers, was created around 210 BCE to accompany China’s first emperor, Qin ...
Tourist smashes two Terracotta Army warriors during bizarre museum rampage
Two of the world famous Terracotta Army clay warriors have been damaged after a tourist jumped into a pit and pushed them ...
Tourist Leaps into 18-Foot Pit, Damages 2,000-Year-Old Statues Before Being Apprehended
Centuries-old Chinese artifacts have been damaged after a tourist visiting the Museum of the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang in Shaanxi, China, leapt over a guardrail and into a pit. On May ...
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These KC warriors have survived 3 decapitations. Learn the history of the Plaza statues
In June, vandals took the head of one of the sculptures ... In January 2005, one of the Plaza statues representing the terracotta warriors of Xian, China, was decapitated for the third time ...
New discoveries unearthed at Bowers’ Terracotta warriors exhibition
“World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century” is on view through Oct. 16 ...
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Terracotta Warriors on display at Bowers Museum; first US visit in nearly a decade
Five of the Terracotta Warriors are on loan to the Bowers ... piping on the soles of the shoe or the strands of hair on the head. “To think that they created lifelike sculptures in the thousands ...