sculpture training

1. Warrior Pit 1, 3rd century BC, Lintong, The figure wears the high hair knot and torso armour typical of higher ranking foot soldiers. Photograph: Lukas Nickel.

The Past

Professor Lukas Nickel on the Terracotta Army’s cultural connections

While studying the Terracotta Warriors in the tomb of China’s first emperor, Professor Lukas Nickel of the University of Vienna came to some interesting conclusions about links between China and the Hellenistic World, as he explains to Dalu Jones