Scandal in China over the museum with 40,000 fake artefacts

Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 18:20 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A museum in China has a problem. It seems to have a few fakes in its vast collection. Well, as many as 40,000. Everything it owns may be nothing more than a mass of crude forgeries. Wei Yingjun, a consultant to the Jibaozhai Museum in Jizhou, about 150 miles south of Beijing …

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