Most historical documents are counterfeit? Video

We shall never know just how many historical documents are in fact counterfeit. History in general goes hand in hand with the history of forgeries; countless chronicles as well as works of art and literature have been considered authentic for centuries before becoming denounced as counterfeit. A presumed fragment of Ciceros De Consolatione discovered by the famous humanist scholar Sigonius only became identified as a work of the latter two centuries after the death of the author we would probably still believe in Ciceros authorship of said fragment if it hadnt been for the discovery of Sigonius written confession. Similar examples are rather abundant the Thespian poet Lucius Varus who turned out to be a 18th century Dutch scientist by the name of Heerkens plagiarizing from the 16th century Venetian author Corrario, the German translation of a Phoenician history tractate by a student named Wagenfeld in the 19th century, classical texts sold to the Leipzig library by a certain Schennis in the 1920s and so forth. Think of just how many remain undiscovered after all, the larger part of the iceberg always remains underwater.

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demonbarber14: I wonder how many pieces of art in the MET are fakes...

mithec: ancient art > 90% = fake QUOTE Hardouin ..denied the genuineness of most ancient works of art, coins and inscriptions, and declared that the New Testament was originally written in Latin. This theory has a modern heir in the Russian mathematician Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, whose conclusions being based on proprietary methods of statistical textual analysis and computational astronomy are even more radical, but considered to be pseudoscientific. UNQUOTE

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