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Summary A fake sculpture of a Mayan warrior was sold for more than $4 million at a Paris auction house.
A sculpture of a Mayan warrior that sold for more than $4 million at a Paris auction house this week is a fake, Mexicos National Institute of Anthropology and History said.The masked, stone figure, sold by a private collector, was billed as an impressive piece of Pre-Columbian art and was believed to be a unique work dating from around 550 to 950 AD. It sold for 2.9 million euros ($4.1 million) on Monday.Mexicos Foreign Ministry reportedly alerted the French government about the fraudulent artifacts before the auction, but this information was not enough for the person who dropped all that money on a piece of stone.
