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Terracotta Warriors (single)

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Terracotta Warriors (single)

One soldier from an army of 8,000 buried with China's first emperor/Statues & Monuments

Each Terracotta Warrior was individually crafted with unique facial features, hairstyles, and armor to guard Emperor Qin Shi Huang in the afterlife. Standing about 1.8 meters tall, they were assembled from separately molded parts and originally painted in vivid colors. Discovered by farmers digging a well in 1974, the full army of roughly 8,000 figures remains one of the most stunning archaeological finds in history.

Measurements

Height1.8 m
1.36Filing cabinet heights
126 millionthsStrait of Gibraltar widths
414 sextillionthsCarina Nebula widths

Varies from 1.7 to 2.0 m by rank

Mass per figure150 kg
150 trillionSkin cells
469 septillionCaffeine molecule weights
7.1 hundredthsSUVs

Solid clay construction

Shoulder width5.5 tenths m
9 tenthsNightstand heights
5.5 tenthsGuitar lengths
2.3 millionthsJamaica lengths
Age70 billion s
2.4 millionWorkdays
555US presidencies
14 trillionHousefly wingbeats

About 2,200 years

Base width4.5 tenths m
2.5 hundredthsBowling alleys
17.3Guitar picks
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