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Bogus! An Introduction to Dubious Discoveries
by Brittany Jackson and Mark Rose
Why do fakes get made? Why do people fall for hoaxes? Greed, pride, revenge, nationalism, pranks, and gullibility mix in an archaeological setting
Eight Classic Cases by Brittany Jackson and Mark Rose
Fawcett's Deadly Idol
A fake figurine and a charlatan's vision inspire a doomed search for Atlantis in the jungles of Brazil
The Beringer Hoax
Extraordinary fossils and inscriptions: Works of Nature or God? Or made by jealous colleagues?
Tarragona Two-Step
The "Hercules Sarcophagus" is quickly debunked, but 60 years later a fragment resurfaces as genuine in a prominent academic journal
Walam Olum Hokum
Eccentric nineteenth-century scholar Constantine Rafinesque composes a Native American epic
Saitaphernes' Golden Tiara
After the Louvre's magnificent Greco-Scythian crown is exposed as a fake, Israel Rouchomovski takes a bow
Tracking the Etruscan Warriors
Evidence shows that being a great art historian may not qualify you for detective work
The Notorious Calaveras Skull
A practical joke in gold rush California sparks a decades-long scholarly debate and still has believers today
Who Made the Praeneste Fibula?
History is rewritten when archaeologist Wolfgang Helbig teams up with a forger
More Fakes and Hoaxes
The Veleia Affair: Find or Fraud in Spain's Basque Country?
Legend of the Crystal Skulls
When Giants Roamed the Earth
Michigan's Mystery Relics
Gold Dust and James Bond
Runestone Fakery
Snake Goddesses, Fake Goddesses
"God's Hands" Did the Devil's Work
Saga of the Persian Princess
Fake Busters
Kenneth Lapatin: Talking About Fakes
Jane MacLaren Walsh: Hunting Fakes
Oscar Muscarella: Scourge of the Forgery Culture
The (Fake) Art Market
Forging Ahead Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love eBay
Fakes Flood Market
Faking African Art
Strange Sites and Pseudoarchaeology
The Bosnia-Atlantis Connection
Seductions of Pseudoarchaeology
Pseudoscience in Cyberspace
Far Out Television
Bogus Books
Theme Park of the Gods
Camelot in Kentucky: Fantasies About Early America
Bogus Sources
Coming soon...
General references about fakes, sources for Eight Classic Cases, and background on other specific frauds and hoaxes
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