Greg Jenner

Phil, you studied engineering at Cambridge.

If we needed a replica made, would you be willing to project manage that for us?

Yeah, ideally.

Julia, this is an astonishingly enormous project.

700,000 conscripted labourers.

And we have the pit in which they are buried too, the workers.

Can you give us some sobering insights into the working conditions for this labour force?

Okay, so the labourers building the site are having a horrible time, and there's an enormous number of them.

But can we now move on to the skilled artisans and talk more about the sculpture, the craft that goes into making these?

Phil, we're going to show you another photo.

What do you see when we show you some of the faces of the terracotta warriors?

So Julia, Phil has identified that their faces look unique.

Is their composition completely unique?

Are they coming out of moulds?

How are they made?

Is it a mix-and-match approach?

How do you make a terracotta warrior?

There are moulds for the heads, aren't there?

Was it eight moulds?

Phil, how do you think overseers could identify and punish any craftsman who wasn't hitting the standards?