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US accused of sending fake Roman mosaics back to Lebanon (www.theguardian.com)
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Authorities in New York have been accused by leading academics in France and Britain of repatriating fake Roman artefacts to Lebanon.

Eight out of nine mosaic panels that the US authorities recently returned to the Middle Eastern country are not what they seem, according to claims made by Djamila Fellague of the University of Grenoble.

She claims to have uncovered proof that forgers had copied designs from original mosaics in archaeological sites or museums in Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and Turkey. “Eight of the nine ‘returned’ mosaic panels were fakes that [are] relatively easy to detect because the models used are famous mosaics,” says Fellague.

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[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not only are good and compact articles few and far between. The problem is that nowadays, a lot of the article you click on will have a paywall so reading them is impossible ( unless using barley functioning services that claim to remove it) After a while, you expect the article to be paywalled and either move on or comment based on the provided info.

[–] jadero@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That, too! I've taken to using any autotldr as a substitute for a "proper" title and author summary. If the autotldr looks like there might be based on something I find interesting, I'll go read the article.

[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

It only happened with me once in lemmy and it contained the same amount of info but in a wordier version. I usually read the autotldr bot summary and if it's not there I check the article but even then there's a 50/50 chance it's locked.