Our new Hoaxes, Fakes, and Strange Sites is now online! We have Eight Classic Cases plus past coverage including Crystal Skulls, Petrified Men, and more!Bogus! An Introduction to Dubious DiscoveriesWhy do fakes get made? Why do people fall for hoaxes? Greed, pride, revenge, nationalism, pranks, and gullibility mix in an archaeological settingFawcett's Deadly IdolA fake figurine and a charlatan's vision inspire a doomed search for Atlantis in the jungles of BrazilThe Beringer HoaxExtraordinary fossils and inscriptions: Works of Nature or God? Or made by jealous colleagues?Tarragona Two-StepThe "Hercules Sarcophagus" is quickly debunked, but 60 years later a fragment resurfaces as genuine in a prominent academic journalWalam Olum HokumEccentric nineteenth-century scholar Constantine Rafinesque composes a Native American epicSaitaphernes' Golden TiaraAfter the Louvre's magnificent Greco-Scythian crown is exposed as a fake, Israel Rouchomovski takes a bowTracking the Etruscan WarriorsEvidence shows that being a great art historian may not qualify you for detective workThe Notorious Calaveras SkullA practical joke in gold rush California sparks a decades-long scholarly debate and still has believers todayWho Made the Praeneste Fibula?History is rewritten when archaeologist Wolfgang Helbig teams up with a forger