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Culture
How Forgers Get True Believers to Buy Their Fake Artifacts
PLAYING GOD
History is full of examples of knockoffs that exploited religious or political agendas.
Candida Moss
Published
Feb. 16 2020
5:11AM EST
Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast
Candida Moss
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