“When Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s funerary army was excavated outside Xi’an from 1974 onwards, the terracotta figures emerged from their burial pits in vivid polychrome and then, almost immediately, began to lose their colour.

The pigments on the armour, trousers and faces were laid over a thin lacquer ground that had survived two millennia underground at constant humidity but began to flake within hours of exposure to dry #Shaanxi air.”
#china #cdrama #archeology

https://storiedcolors.com/color/han-purple/

“When Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s funerary army was excavated outside Xi’an from 1974 onwards, the terracotta figures emerged from their burial pits in vivid polychrome and then, almost immediately, began to lose their colour.

The pigments on the armour, trousers and faces were laid over a thin lacquer ground that had survived two millennia underground at constant humidity but began to flake within hours of exposure to dry #Shaanxi air.”
#china #cdrama #archeology

https://storiedcolors.com/color/han-purple/

“…and the ‘393AD’ materials included fibreglass and papier-mache columns, stuccoed blocks and plaster statues from the early 2000s.”

Man who built a fake Roman Amphitheatre in Italy to lure in tourists has been sentenced to more than two years in jail for fraud.

#archeology #classics #roman #italy

https://metro.co.uk/2026/07/24/conman-built-fake-roman-amphitheatre-charged-tourists-35-visit-29214436/

“…and the ‘393AD’ materials included fibreglass and papier-mache columns, stuccoed blocks and plaster statues from the early 2000s.”

Man who built a fake Roman Amphitheatre in Italy to lure in tourists has been sentenced to more than two years in jail for fraud.

#archeology #classics #roman #italy

https://metro.co.uk/2026/07/24/conman-built-fake-roman-amphitheatre-charged-tourists-35-visit-29214436/