Artifact or Artifiction?

Life is stranger than fiction, they often say. And that’s true for history as well! As we regain lost knowledge of our past by uncovering amazing and surprising, even bizarre artifacts, we’re sometimes left to puzzle—which are true artifacts, and which are works of fiction? Was it a real find, or all a hoax? To discover the truth of history, all we can do is: read, examine, consider, and judge.