Forgery controversies

famous diary of a 13-year old Dutch Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis to escape the Holocaust

Old East Slavic heroic poem

late Roman collection of biographies, written in Latin, of the Roman Emperors, their junior colleagues, designated heirs and usurpers of the period 117–284; much of its content is regarded as fictional

artifact found in Nebra, Germany

series of 112 short, cryptic phrases in Latin which purport to predict the Roman Catholic popes

purported 15th century New World map shown to be a 20th century fake

Spanish rabbi and Kabbalist (c. 1240 – 1305)

website

Iberian sculpture

purported organization that appears in UFO conspiracy theories

historical artifact

7th-century BC Old Latin inscription

Karaite scholar (1786–1874)

limestone box asserted to be that which originally held the bones of James of the New Testament, but contested as a forgery

Pre-Columbian Maya book

a stone tablet with Hebrew text, containing a collection of short prophecies dated to the late 1st century BCE or early first century CE

photograph by Robert Capa

painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci

image of the Holocaust in Ukraine

The plaque posted on the head of the cross of Jesus of Nazareth

inscribed stele with the earliest example of Thai script

human settlement

French rabbi

documents found in Jordan

972 dower document for Byzantine princess Theophanu

alleged secret speech given by Stalin in 1939 to the Politburo, justifying war in Europe and collaboration with Nazi Germany

Russian teacher, writer and journalist (1824-1879)

Historical record of the Hwarang (lit. flower boys) of the Silla kingdom in ancient Korea

book

Christian relic

archaeological forgery

inscribed stone tablet

German rabbi

controversial early Christian document

manuscript, 1324

German Orthodox rabbi

a document claiming to be a classified appendix to a U.S. Army Field Manual

Altar image of Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and family

book by Taha Hussein