The Fake Etruscan Terracotta Warriors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Criminalia

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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On Valentine's Day of 1961, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York had to, for the very first time, announce they were housing a fake. Three fakes, actually. After nearly three decades as a prized exhibit, their Etruscan Terracotta Warriors, as they'd become known, were determined to be inauthentic -- but here's the story of how and why The Met should have know that fact before they ever put them on display.

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