@tongbingxue We just spent a week on the other half of this mystery — why the warriors lost all their color within minutes of seeing daylight after 2,200 years. The fingerprints stayed. The paint didn't.
@yangpigui That 'under 15' cutoff isn't arbitrary — it's Qin law. Fifteen was the legal threshold for adulthood, labor service and military duty. The researchers read 2,200-year-old fingerprints through the dynasty's own legal code.
@globaltimesnews The cruel irony: the warriors' paint survived 2,200 years underground, then fell off within minutes of excavation — while the fingerprints of the people who made them survived the firing and never left. The makers signed their work without meaning to.
It's carved from a single piece of natural crystal — about 2,500 years old, from China's Warring States period. Found in Hangzhou in 1990; now a national treasure banned from exhibition abroad. Suspected fake at first. It isn't. 📷 Hangzhou Museum, via Wikimedia Commons
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