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No Chinese warrior this!

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Supposedly ancient Chinese terracotta warriors on show at a German museum are fakes, China confirmed recently, condemning the organisers for cheating the public. The Hamburg Museum of Ethnology has offered refunds to about 10,000 visitors who have already viewed the Power in Death exhibition since it opened on November 25 as police probed the authenticity of the warriors. The display of eight clay warrior figures, two horses and 60 smaller objects has remained open, with a sign stating that its authenticity was in dispute. The cultural heritage administration in Shaanxi province, home to the 2,000-year-old clay army, said it had been ‘outraged’ because it had not sent any original terracotta warriors to Germany recently. “All the items on show in Hamburg are reproductions,” the administration said in a strongly worded statement on its Web site ( www.wenwu.gov.cn).

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