A tampered with yeti relic, an imaginary city buried under the sand, a wreck of pirates that never existed: History is full of frauds and scams. If these deceptions have ended up being revealed in broad daylight, their story remains no less fascinating.
The skull of the fearsome pirate Blackbeard thus met an incredible fate, as did the finger found in the trunk of the wife of American actor James Stewart.
To discover the most beautiful impostures of History, Sidonie Bonnec receives Marie-Eve Sténuit, art historian, archaeologist and novelist. She is the author of the book False treasures and impostures at Editions du Trésor.