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Wow- we love your project Jacqueline Hylkema! Can’t wait to see what you find!

#FakeFriday: My deceptive desk at UBLeiden - with Inghirami and Psalmanazar (for a new #forgery course) and Dutch translations of Ossian and the Monita Secreta (for the collection). Life is good in #thefakerepublic | #twitterstorians

#ForgeryFriday Getty Gnaios 🧵👇

‘The handwriting is wrong’: Dickens letters dismissed as forgeries theguardian.com/books/2022/dec…

Great to see! Thanks so much @KeithSweeney5 and Ashley Cooke 𓀁! We’re looking forward to taking a closer look at these creations of our favourite forger!

.Richard Bott flying the forgingantiquity flag at #ASCS44!

While the damage to historical and archaeological sites in #earthquake-affected areas of Syria and Turkiye is devastating, now is not the time to focus on these monuments. Now is the time to focus on people. Below are a couple of ways:

Imagined histories, the creation of pasts and more.

Fantastic new collection of essays ed. Morag M. Kersel, Neil Brodie & Josephine Munch Rasmussen, including an essay by Rachel Y-C 🇵🇸 on “Between representation and the real: the forgeries of Constantine Simonides” sidestone.com/books/variant-…

Coming soon, The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, edited by Rita Lucarelli (@ritaluc) and Martin Stadler, featuring a chapter on fake Books of the Dead by @ritaluc and Malcolm Choat. Available for preorder now at global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Great to see @eviehandby’s article on fake Torahs published! Great work Evie!

#CFP for May ‘24 conf on Misattributions and Forgeries in Middle Eastern Manuscript Traditions Workshop; paging @eviehandby in particular. (Thanks for the page Rachel Madden !)

Our forgingantiquity BPhil interns Brooke Gallucci and Oli Hastings both gave great presentations at the Macquarie University History and Archaeology HDR&ECR conference last week on the work they’ll do with Rachel Y-C 🇵🇸 on Graeco-Egyptian magical papyri in their MRes theses- look out for more of their work next year!

Did we miss this at the time, @eviehandby ?

📍Diyarbakır'da düzenlenen tarihi eser kaçakçılığı operasyonunda altın yazma İbranice kitap ele geçirildi.

A new volume on numerous aspects of "Provenance Research on Collections from Colonial Contexts" (including some Namibian case studies) has just been published - entirely open access 👇 books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/…

#blog Another Cycladic Head, Another Curious Provenance - by Richard Bott Richard Bott - Marks of Authenticity blog forgingantiquity - markersofauthenticity.com/2024/03/26/ano…

MOLA is here!!

Deadline for abstracts: August 15! ntnu.edu/web/colourlab/… #LyingPen

“The Picassos are fake, but no art fraud has been committed because the artist did not attempt to create false provenance for the works, nor did she attempt to sell them.” art experts say Mona’s fake-Picasso stunt may undermine gallery’s reputation theguardian.com/culture/articl…