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TargetOfPerpetuity t1_j4q1kr8 wrote

Being that it's lines scratched into rock, would it be difficult to produce similar runes today, and age them to look as old as these do?

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ActivisionBlizzard t1_j4qopzb wrote

No, not at all.

But what would be difficult is finding a grave that’s two millennia old, putting your fraudulent runes tone into it and then covering it back up to the point that a professional archaeologist can’t notice.

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booga_booga_partyguy t1_j4tpoc9 wrote

More critically, why would anyone invest that kind of time and effort to pull off a prank with little payoff?

Just gaining the expertise needed to carve the right kind of runes that are era appropriate alone will require at least the equivalent of post-grad level of knowledge.

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Ephemeral_Wolf t1_j4ucq2u wrote

I imagine IF anyone were to go the trouble of something like this, it would be an archaeologist themselves looking for the credit of a big find?

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booga_booga_partyguy t1_j4ug36a wrote

Possible, but again, way too much effort for relatively little tangible gain.

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Ephemeral_Wolf t1_j4ug8dw wrote

"fortune and glory, doctor Jones"

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booga_booga_partyguy t1_j4ugggo wrote

That flavour of archeologist would spend more time breaking half the artefacts in the cave to beat the Nazis to a particular find over wasting time creating an elaborate forgery.

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LupusDeusMagnus t1_j4qqhj0 wrote

Not impossible, but it’s more difficult than you’d imagine, and the context of the finding would need to corroborate it.

Runes vary a lot geographically and over time, so if you find some runes that look completely different from the ones that you’d expect to find, it’s either a very strange carving or a forgery.

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