Terracotta Army
How did Qin-dynasty workshops mass-produce roughly 8,000 life-sized clay soldiers — each with an individual face — some 2,200 years ago, using a modular assembly line of moulded torsos, heads and limbs that were then hand-finished, kiln-fired and painted to guard an emperor's still-unopened tomb?
c. 246–208 BCE, Qin dynasty · Lintong, Xi'an, Shaanxi, ChinaAdded July 2026