American stole a finger of a Chinese terracotta warrior
China demands “severe punishment” for 24-year-old American Michael Rohana for breaking his thumb off the left hand of an ancient terracotta statue of a Chinese warrior exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum.
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The cost of the exhibit is estimated at $ 4,5 million, reports Fox News.
Rohan is accused of stealing and hiding a valuable work of art, he was arrested, but soon released on bail.
Director of the Center for the Promotion of Cultural Heritage of Shaanxi Wu Haiyun, who lent the statues to the Franklin Institute, believes that the incident is also to blame for the “indifference of the museum”, which led to damage to the valuable archaeological artifact.
“We ask that the US punish the perpetrator severely. We have already expressed our serious protest to them,” Wu Haiyun said.
Rohana attended a Christmas party at the Franklin Institute on December 21, 2017, and as part of the event, the man also entered the "Terracotta Warriors of the First Emperor" exhibition.
Rohan took a few selfies with a 2000-year-old statue, then broke off the warrior’s thumb and left. Museum staff noticed the missing finger of the statue only on January 8 and reported it to the police.
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Five days after that, the police arrested Rohan.
Wu Haiyun expressed his “strong condemnation” of the Philadelphia museum staff and added that two experts would be sent there to assess the damage and the possibility of reattaching the thumb. The center also requires compensation for damages.
A spokesman for the Franklin Institute had previously said that the statue would be repaired, adding that the guard didn’t really follow the standard procedures on the night the incident occurred.
Currently, 10 statues from the 8 collection of 000 terracotta warriors are stored in the museum. The terracotta army, made of clay and created by the emperor Qin Shi Huang from the Qin dynasty before 210 BC, was discovered in 1974 year.
Life size figurines are considered one of the most valuable archaeological artifacts in China.
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