Not a single soldier shares the same face. 🗿 ✨ This is the Terracotta Army outside Xi'an, built more than 2,200 years ago for Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, who was convinced he needed a full military to protect him in the afterlife. Each warrior was assembled from a handful of base molds, then finished by hand with its own expression, hairstyle, armor and rank, which is why no two look alike. The whole thing sat buried and forgotten until 1974, when local farmers digging a well struck one by accident and uncovered one of the greatest archaeological finds in history. The soldiers were once painted in bright colors and armed with real bronze weapons, some swords still sharp today thanks to an anti-rust treatment the West only figured out in the last century. Archaeologists are still pulling warriors out of the ground, and the emperor's own tomb, said to contain rivers of liquid mercury, has never been opened. Love Technology? Follow Wealth 🌟 Media: miru_m #Terracott...