Weapons of Terracotta Army preserved by accident not ancient chrome-plating technique, scientists find

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Archaeologists originally thought the bronze weapons carried by the warriors had been chrome plated

The weapons carried by China’s Terracotta Army were preserved by accident and not by the earliest form of anti-rust technology, experts have concluded.

 

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