"Terracotta Warriors" that appeared at a German museum

(FILES) Photo taken 06 February 2007 show visitors viewing the army of Terracotta Warriors on display at Pit 1 at the heavily-travelled Terracotta Warrior Museum on the outskirts of Xian, in northwest China's Shaanxi province. Chinese cultural authorities are threatening legal action over fake "Terracotta Warriors" that appeared at a German museum in an embarrassing scam that fooled thousands of people, state press reported 14 December 2007, after Hamburg's Museum of Ethnology admitted that the eight clay statues on display that purportedly belonged to China's legendary "Terracotta Army" were only copies, and promptly closed the exhibition. The celebrated ancient "army" of thousands of clay sculptures representing warriors that adorned the grave of China's first emperor, Qin Shihuang were unearthed after two farmers stumbled upon the emperor's tomb in 1974 in what is considered to be one of the most important archeological finds of the 20th century

(FILES) photo taken 06 February 2007 shows a vendor offering a boxed-set of mini Terracotta Warrior replicas for ten renminbi, or yuan (1.20 USD), at the heavily-travelled Terracotta Warrior Museum on the outskirts of Xian, in northwest China's Shaanxi province. Chinese cultural authorities are threatening legal action over fake "Terracotta Warriors" that appeared at a German museum in an embarrassing scam that fooled thousands of people, state press reported 14 December 2007, after Hamburg's Museum of Ethnology admitted that the eight clay statues on display that purportedly belonged to China's legendary "Terracotta Army" were only copies, and promptly closed the exhibition. The celebrated ancient "army" of thousands of clay sculptures representing warriors that adorned the grave of China's first emperor, Qin Shihuang were unearthed after two farmers stumbled upon the emperor's tomb in 1974 in what is considered to be one of the most important archeological finds of the 20th century

Photo taken 06 February 2007 shows visitors viewing the army of Terracotta Warriors on display at Pit 1 at the heavily-travelled Terracotta Warrior Museum on the outskirts of Xian, in northwest China's Shaanxi province. Chinese cultural authorities are threatening legal action over fake "Terracotta Warriors" that appeared at a German museum in an embarrassing scam that fooled thousands of people, state press reported 14 December, after Hamburg's Museum of Ethnology admitted that the eight clay statues on display that purportedly belonged to China's legendary "Terracotta Army" were only copies, and promptly closed the exhibition. The celebrated ancient "army" of thousands of clay sculptures representing warriors that adorned the grave of China's first emperor, Qin Shihuang were unearthed after two farmers stumbled upon the emperor's tomb in 1974 in what is considered to be one of the most important archeological finds of the 20th century