The giant fakes of history
When science got it wrong
Tricks of the mind and eye
The media's wildest fabrications
Spotting the fake in the digital age
YOUR GOAL
Master of The great crumble and how falsehoods fall apart
007skaty Taj al-Saltaneh
No suitors died for her hand, (she wrote her own truth, oh-oh)
007skaty In October 1869, well diggers on William Newell's farm unearthed a stone figure that became a short-lived national sensation.
007skaty Amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson fooled the world in 1912 with a fabricated fossil.
007skaty Pop the brass bubbles of lies to learn how all forms of falsehoods collapse.
Cardiff Giant copy: P.T. Barnum made a fake copy of the fake Cardiff Giant and drew larger crowds than the original.
Who engineered the Cardiff Giant hoax to mock literal interpretations of biblical giants?
In what year was the famous Piltdown Man fossil definitively exposed as a scientific hoax?
Which historical fraternity was behind the creation of Drake's Plate of Brass as a joke?
What scientific technique was used in 1977 to prove Drake's Plate of Brass was fake?
What did carbon dating reveal about the reed mat inside the Persian Princess sarcophagus?