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Phaistos Disc declared as fake by scholar
Jul 13 2008, Adam

Some say that its 45 mysterious symbols are the words of a 4,000-year-old poem, or perhaps a sacred text. Others contest that they are a magical inscription, a piece of ancient music or the world’s oldest example of punctuation.

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This undated photo provided by The Brooklyn Museum shows a female bust purporting to be Holy Wisdom holding an orb and staff, which is a fake Coptic art sculpture from the museum’s collection. Some museums might not want to admit they have fakes in...

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