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Archaeologists have unveiled 110 new terracotta army statues excavated near the 2,000-year tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Shihuang.
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This picture taken on June 9, 2012 shows Chinese archaeologists at work in the extended excavation of the Pit One of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum in Xian, carefully uncovering using delicate equipment to help preserve the detailed work in their original production more than 2,000 years ago, of the latest terracotta warrior find in Xian, China's Shaanxi province. Excavations in China have unearthed a stunning new collection of 2,000-year-old terracotta warriors and hundreds of other artefacts, as Chinese archaeologists unveiled 120 new terracotta warriors at the Qin Shihuang Unesco World Heritage site in Shaanxi province.
- [STR/AFP/Getty Images]
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This picture taken on June 9, 2012 shows Chinese archaeologists at work in the extended excavation of the Pit One of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum in Xian, carefully uncovering using delicate equipment to help preserve the detailed work in their original production more than 2,000 years ago, of the latest terracotta warrior find in Xian, China's Shaanxi province. Excavations in China have unearthed a stunning new collection of 2,000-year-old terracotta warriors and hundreds of other artefacts, as Chinese archaeologists unveiled 120 new terracotta warriors at the Qin Shihuang Unesco World Heritage site in Shaanxi province.
- [STR/AFP/Getty Images]
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This picture taken on June 9, 2012 shows Chinese archaeologists at work in the extended excavation of the Pit One of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum in Xian, carefully uncovering using delicate equipment to help preserve the detailed work in their original production more than 2,000 years ago, of the latest terracotta warrior find in Xian, China's Shaanxi province. Excavations in China have unearthed a stunning new collection of 2,000-year-old terracotta warriors and hundreds of other artefacts, as Chinese archaeologists unveiled 120 new terracotta warriors at the Qin Shihuang Unesco World Heritage site in Shaanxi province.
- [STR/AFP/Getty Images]
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This picture taken on June 9, 2012 shows Chinese archaeologists at work in the extended excavation of the Pit One of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum in Xian, as they measue and record the dimensions of the latest terracotta warrior find in Xian, China's Shaanxi province. Excavations in China have unearthed a stunning new collection of 2,000-year-old terracotta warriors and hundreds of other artefacts, as Chinese archaeologists unveiled 120 new terracotta warriors at the Qin Shihuang Unesco World Heritage site in Shaanxi province.
- [STR/AFP/Getty Images]
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This picture taken on June 9, 2012 shows Chinese archaeologists at work in the extended excavation of the Pit One of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum in Xian, as they measue and record the dimensions of the latest terracotta warrior find in Xian, China's Shaanxi province. Excavations in China have unearthed a stunning new collection of 2,000-year-old terracotta warriors and hundreds of other artefacts, as Chinese archaeologists unveiled 120 new terracotta warriors at the Qin Shihuang Unesco World Heritage site in Shaanxi province.
- [STR/AFP/Getty Images]
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This picture taken on June 9, 2012 shows Chinese archaeologists at work in the extended excavation of the Pit One of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum in Xian, carefully uncovering using delicate equipment to help preserve the detailed work in their original production more than 2,000 years ago, of the latest terracotta warrior find in Xian, China's Shaanxi province. Excavations in China have unearthed a stunning new collection of 2,000-year-old terracotta warriors and hundreds of other artefacts, as Chinese archaeologists unveiled 120 new terracotta warriors at the Qin Shihuang Unesco World Heritage site in Shaanxi province.
- [STR/AFP/Getty Images]
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This picture taken on June 9, 2012 shows Chinese archaeologists at work in the extended excavation of the Pit One of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum in Xian, as they measue and record the dimensions of the latest terracotta warrior find in Xian, China's Shaanxi province. Excavations in China have unearthed a stunning new collection of 2,000-year-old terracotta warriors and hundreds of other artefacts, as Chinese archaeologists unveiled 120 new terracotta warriors at the Qin Shihuang Unesco World Heritage site in Shaanxi province.
- [STR/AFP/Getty Images]
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This picture taken on June 9, 2012 shows Chinese archaeologists at work in the extended excavation of the Pit One of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum in Xian, as they measue and record the dimensions of the latest terracotta warrior find in Xian, China's Shaanxi province. Excavations in China have unearthed a stunning new collection of 2,000-year-old terracotta warriors and hundreds of other artefacts, as Chinese archaeologists unveiled 120 new terracotta warriors at the Qin Shihuang Unesco World Heritage site in Shaanxi province.
- [STR/AFP/Getty Images]
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A high ranking officer is displayed as part of China's Terracotta Warriors display April 24, 2012 at Discovery Times Square in New York. The exhibit of archeological discovery will debut April 27, 2012.
- [DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images]
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An infantry soldier is displayed as part of China's Terracotta Warriors display April 24, 2012 at Discovery Times Square in New York. The exhibit of archeological discovery will debut April 27, 2012.
- [DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images]
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A cavalry soldier on a saddled horse is displayed as part of China's Terracotta Warriors display April 24, 2012 at Discovery Times Square in New York. The exhibit of archeological discovery will debut April 27, 2012.
- [DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images]
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This photo taken November 25, 2007 shows the buried Terracotta Warriors in the Chinese city of Xian.
- [ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP/Getty Images]
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This photo taken November 25, 2007 shows the buried Terracotta Warriors in the Chinese city of Xian.
- [ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP/Getty Images]
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This photo taken November 25, 2007 shows the buried Terracotta Warriors in the Chinese city of Xian.
- [ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP/Getty Images]
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This photo taken November 25, 2007 shows the buried Terracotta Warriors in the Chinese city of Xian.
- [ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP/Getty Images]
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Photo taken February 6, 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.
- [FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images]
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