My sister refuses to believe those ancient artifacts found from Roman times are real, she thinks scientists or archeologists just made it up to sell them. Help me prove her wrong.
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The academics will always try to minimize this, but there is a MASSIVE market for manufactured antiquities and texts. Every country with ancient ruins is going to have dozens of workshops creating convincing forgeries. What they don’t want you to know is that there is no foolproof way to tell the difference between real artifacts and fake ones, especially when the forgeries are using legitimately ancient materials and techniques, and those whose job it is to tell the difference are often just offering convincing guesses. Those guesses then get taken as absolute fact because they are “experts” and academics do not want to cope with the reality of uncertainty, or to allow the public to challenge their facade of authority.
Furthermore, this has been an issue for millennia, and there are many earnest academics who believe that texts and artifacts which are widely accepted as authentic are actually forgeries, and vice versa. It’s further complicated by the fact that academics sometimes participate in the forgeries themselves. So what I am trying to say is that she may have a point, in that academics have many incentives for lying about these things. But that doesn’t mean that there are not legitimate artifacts being found.
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