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mperor Qin Shi Huang (221-207BC) might have scoffed had a fortune teller predicted that the terracotta army he commissioned to guard his tomb would one day attract millions of tourists. He may have laughed, too - though historians paint Qin as an archetypal tyrant not so easily amused - had anyone suggested that 2,200 years later, his army would spawn thousands of souvenir copies.
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