The Terracotta Warriors

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4.3 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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With a new exhibition open in Liverpool featuring a group of Terracotta Warriors, Edward Burman explores the fascinating history of these ancient Chinese sculptures Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.3	The newer ones, which have the colour, are really quite extraordinary, and have really extraordinary
0:49.3	details, much more than simply a bit of mud.
0:53.3	And to make an eyebrow, they have things, for example, painted eyelashes, which in the old
0:58.6	statues, the 6000 or the 2000, which have been excavated with the 6,000 in the headpit
1:05.0	number one.
1:06.2	None of them have eyelashes, very few of them have colour.
1:10.1	So there are new techniques to preserve the colour.
1:13.4	That was Edward Berman discussing the terracotta warriors.
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