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Cthulhu_today at 8:43 AM2 repliesview on HN

It's one of several techniques they can apply, at least. I for one don't even know why there's a forgery market for ancient pottery, or that there's a market for it.


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p-e-wtoday at 9:36 AM

> I for one don't even know why there's a forgery market for ancient pottery

Because people desire owning ancient pottery and are therefore willing to pay for it.

mschuster91today at 9:37 AM

> I for one don't even know why there's a forgery market for ancient pottery

People have paid top dollar for archeological artifacts for centuries. Humanity lost a lot of knowledge from graverobbers, illegal artifact hunting and unreported thefts of stuff getting exposed after stuff like forest fires.

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