{
  "id": 16819335,
  "title": "The Terracotta Army Holds a Hidden Clue About Who Built It, New Study Finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/the-terracotta-army-holds-a-hidden-clue-about-who-built-it-new-study",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-27T23:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Colombia One",
    "slug": "colombia-one",
    "url": "https://colombiaone.com/2026/10/27/terracotta-army-women-children-fingerprints-study/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Women and children younger than 15 may have helped make China’s famous Terracotta Army, according to a new study that analyzed fingerprints preserved in the clay figures buried with Emperor Qin Shi Huang more than 2,200 years ago. The research, published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage, challenges the assumption that the monumental project relied […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}