Man Accused of Taking Thumb from 2,000-year-old Terra-Cotta Warrior
A 2000 year old terra cotta warrior valued at 4.5 million dollars is missing a thumb, but surveillance footage helped find the thief. Michael Rohana of Delaware was arrested last week in the December theft. Rohana and a few of his friends entered the closed off terra-cotta warrior exhibit, and after his friends left, Rohana took a selfie with one of the statues. Rohana has been charged with theft of an object of cultural heritage from a museum, concealment of an object of cultural heritage stolen from a museum, and interstate transportation of stolen goods."We call on the United States to severely punish those who have done [this]," Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relic Exchange Center's director told the Beijing Daily, a Chinese newspaper.
The center plans to send two experts to the United States to repair the thumb, according to China's state newspaper Xinhau. Over the past 40 years, the center has organized about 260 exhibits around the world featuring the warriors, and there has never been a situation like this. The warrior statues date back to 209 B.C., when the Qin Dynasty ruled China. The life-size statues were constructed to guard the tomb of their master, China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/19/us/terracotta-warrior-thumb/index.html
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