Another Warrior Picture
Looking through my too large collection of pictures from the Terracotta Warrior Museum on the plane back to Beijing I found this one. I think it shows the individual character of each figure better than the ones I posted before.
posted by Michael Cross at 10:00 PM
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That's a remarkable picture. Do you know what these figures were armed with?
The information signs and books say that the army is divided into groups, some armed with spears and swords, some archers, and some armed with cross-bows. In this picture with the forearms horizontal, I would think they carried spears, but I don't know what weopons were carried by the men in the picture you comment on.
This webpage has useful information. One book I read said that most of the weopons were looted, but the website says that 10,000 bronze weopons have been recovered. Only a few seemed to be on display - these were very finely crafted.
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