Comment by Cthulhu_
7 hours ago
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.
7 hours ago
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.
> 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.
Forgery is so ancient that we have forgery ancient items made in ancient times
> 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.
> Humanity lost a lot of knowledge from graverobbers […]
Don’t forget the major scale destruction wrought by wars (religious and otherwise) - eg in the Middle East.
You might also want to count cultural theft. (Where are the gates of Babylon now??)