Terracotta warriors get weapons via your phone

Philadelphia

IMAGINE pointing your phone at China's ancient terra-cotta warriors to arm them with spears and bows, weapons that disintegrated long ago.

For many people, the Franklin Institute's new exhibition, Terracotta Warriors of the First Emperor, which runs until March 4, 2018, will afford the only chance to see a small subset of the approximately 8,000 clay soldiers and other figures that were discovered beneath a Chinese persimmon orchard in 1974. Some 2,200 years ago, they were built by the emperor Qin Shihuangdi in a massive public works project that lasted about 30 years.