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By your own comment it didn't "happen" so much as it was "attempted"

    Hearing the rumour of fraud, journalists from Mainichi newspaper installed hidden cameras at a dig site where Fujimura was working and caught him planting artifacts. 
> As for faking carbon-dating, you only need a nuclear reactor.

"Only" .. and I think you'll find it's a lot more complicated that just that - chat with some of the scientists at a US National lab (or physicist in a nuclear field) and you'll find there's entire spectrums of isotopes that fingerprint materials pre & post Atomic age - and there's more than just carbon dating.

> Vinland Map

another example of inks and cabon not matching - as I stated in my comment it's difficult to fake artifacts.



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