Ancient gold workers were crooks as well as craftsmen 

Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 16:00 in Earth & Climate

As long as humans have lusted after shiny objects made of solid gold and silver, there have been scammers passing off plate as the real thing. They just used to be better at it.

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