The Daily Populous Wednesday July 3rd, 2024 evening edition
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stormearthfire on July 3rd, 2024 at 05:01 UTC »

Unfortunately, this is not the original state the statues was found in. The entire site was destroyed and statues smashed / burnt by a massive rebellion a mere 15 years after the death of the Qin emperor. The guy was pretty brutal in his lifetime and lots of people hated him. Almost all his children was killed in the power struggle immediately after his death.

Theres a team on site painstakingly reconstructing each statue each broken piece by piece.

ishook on July 3rd, 2024 at 05:31 UTC »

200,000 units are ready, with a million more well on the way.

MarlythAvantguarddog on July 3rd, 2024 at 07:44 UTC »

My friend was in charge of one of the big exhibitions in the UK. There was an accident on site when a rigger fell from a cherry picker and smashed a couple of the Warriors and a horse. The guy was shitting it thinking that he’d broken items worth millions and irreplaceable; the Chinese representatives shrugged and told him it would be okay, they would just replace them in a day or two from others in China. I’ve always suspected that they are sending abroad copies and not the originals That would make sense.