The Perfect Fake: How a 900-Year-Old Pot Never Left Roanoke
The Perfect Fake: How a 900-Year-Old Pot Never Left Roanoke
The thrill here is the near-impossible: a 900-year-old Mississippian water carrier went missing while a flawless forgery toured eleven cities and passed through fourteen curators and two conservators without detection - so where was the original the whole time? Who forged eighteen signatures, used a trusted access code seven unexplained times, and managed to keep the real vessel in Roanoke?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the exhibition's arrival to the discovery in a Harwick storage shelf, tracing the paper…
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