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Soldiers of fortune

By CompiledJoshua S. Burek, Stephen Humphries, and Sara Steindorf

February 16, 2000

Statue warrior replicas like these in Xian have become a lucrative industry in China. A farmer found the life-sized terra-cotta warriors guarding the tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Shihuang, in 1974.