Eddiego65 takes us in to the world archaeological forgery where fabrication of purportedly ancient items are sold in the antiquities market and may sometimes even end up in museums. Fame and money are usually the reasons why most archaeological forgeries are perpetrated. Here are six notable archaeological hoaxes in history.
The Piltdown man consisted of skull and jawbone fragments unearthed in 1912 from a gravel pit in Piltdown, a village in East Sussex, England. Due to the prevailing ideas of the time regarding early human evolution, many leading experts touted the discovery as representing the missing link between ape and man, and even named it Eoanthropus Dawsoni, "Dawson's dawn man" after its discoverer, Charles Dawson, an amateur geologist and archaeologist. Read More
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