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Looks like a drawing of blood plasma.
Wait, no. It’s single-cell Beavis and Butthead.
If it has lasted 60 years before being proved false then one has to say that it is a ‘good’ fake! So many times a ‘discovery’ turns into a broken heart but those stories of documents & paintings from attics & closets turning into windfalls keeps the optimist going!
I once turned down a low price on a 14th Century Samurai Sword because it was too good to be true. I will never know but even if it had been true, where would I store it or who would I donate it to?
Still, thanks for this post, I’ve known about this controversy for years / decades and it is interesting to see it ‘resolved’!
What next? Will they try to show that the Kensington Runestone is a fake too?
what gave it away?
maybe the “Made in China” tag at the bottom ?
Because of the compound in the inks? It could be a forgery. But it could also be that someone freshened it up in the 1920s, back when people were very fast and loose with antiquities.
Look up the famous photos of cranes being used to assemble those rocks on top of Stonehenge in 1901.
That doesn’t make Stonehenge a forgery.
And then we must consider modern Ivy colleges that are completely horny to discredit ANYTHING white or European origin.
So basically, I remain to be convinced that the Yale declaration forgery is not another kind of forgery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows
This settlement was discovered on Newfoundland in 1960. So how did the supposed 1920s faker know that the region was visited in the exact century before that was known or confirmed?
From the article;
“Alleged to date back to the 15th-Century, the map depicts ‘Vinlanda Insula’ - a section of North America’s coastline. It also claims that the region was visited by Europeans in the 11th Century.”
“There is also strong evidence to suggest that the map was a deliberate hoax, rather than a modern recreation that had simply been misinterpreted as genuine, as evidenced by the fact that its creators used part of an authentic medieval volume and overwrote it to make the map appear more legitimate.”
And that it was written on an authentic medieval volume is proof that it was a hoax? This researcher makes a leap of faith. The exact opposite conclusion could be reached.