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Archaeological forgery is the manufacture of supposedly ancient items that are sold to the antiquities market and may even end up in the collections of museums. It is related to art forgery . A string of archaeological forgeries have usually followed news of prominent archaeological excavations .
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Brígido Lara (born 1939/40) is a Mexican artist and ex-forger of pre-Columbian antiques. Lara claims to have created perhaps as many as 40,000 pieces of forged pre-Columbian pottery. [1] Brígido Lara began to create forgeries in the 1950s and 1960s.
Shqip; Slovenščina; Српски / srpski; ... Archaeological forgery (1 C, 14 P) Art forgery (3 C, 11 P) C. Counterfeit consumer goods (1 C, 19 P) D. Document ...
Researcher discover from Warsaw Mummy Project what they thought was the mummy of Egyptian priest, Hor-Djehuty was in fact a mummified corpse of a pregnant woman.
Charles Dawson (11 July 1864 – 10 August 1916) was a British amateur archaeologist who claimed to have made a number of archaeological and palaeontological discoveries that were later exposed as frauds. These forgeries included the Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus dawsoni), a unique set of bones that he claimed to have found in 1912 in Sussex. [1]
In August 1911, he published a work on his findings titled "The 'Michigan Relics': A Story of Forgery and Deception." [ 10 ] Rudolph Etzenhouser, who was a traveling elder of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS), saw the relics as proof of the historicity of the Book of Mormon .
Historical forgery may refer to: Archaeological forgery , the creation of false artifacts Literary forgery , in the context of the creation of false or misattributed historical texts