Amazing to think they were buried only moments before the colours would have started to disappear in the air
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Journal of Art in Society
Didn’t know this ~ 1974 photograph shows a group of freshly-excavated 2,000 year-old Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an, China, with their original vibrant colours. Once exposed to air and sunlight during excavation, the colours started to disappear almost immediately www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
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