[SunkenCiv]

thanks, and for all, an entry about the fake kouros.

[sinanju]

I liked the history of the Crystal Skulls that the new Indiana Jones movie provoked.

It all goes back to a mid nineteenth-century French antiques dealer and amateur archaeologist. None have ever been shown to have predated modern grinding methods and none have ever been found in a “dig.”

[count-your-change]

Thanks for the info. I had read about the statue a few years ago but didn’t recall the details except that the work was fake and the Getty had a very expensive door stop.
Makes one wonder how much other stuff is not quite what is purports to be.