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New Study Suggests Women and Children Built Terracotta Warriors
- A new study analyzed fingerprints found on the Terracotta Warriors near Xi'an, China.
- The study suggests that women and children may have helped build the Terracotta Army.
- The Terracotta Army was created in the third century B.C. to guard the tomb of Emperor Qin Shihuang.
- The discovery challenges the previous assumption that only men built the Terracotta Army.
- The Terracotta Army was discovered in 1974 and is a UNESCO World Heritage site.