interview Bowers Museum curator Tianlong Jiao World of the Terracotta Warriors

Originally, the figures were painted but the delicate pigments used flaked off most statues just minutes after excavation.

An interactive digital display showing two elderly museum visitors standing in front of a screen with vividly colored digital reconstructions of terracotta warriors.

“World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century” is on view through October 19

interview Bowers Museum curator Tianlong Jiao World of the Terracotta Warriors