5 case files, newest first.
Between 1924 and 1930, lead crosses and swords with Latin inscriptions came out of the caliche beside an old lime kiln on Silverbell Road. They seemed to tell of a Roman-Jewish colony in eighth-century Arizona. The 1925 skeptics had it right: they're a hoax.
A shipwrecked bronze calculator from the ancient Mediterranean — out of place only until the gear trains are counted.
Parthian/Sasanian jars with copper and iron: König’s battery hypothesis remains popular; many archaeologists favor scroll containers.
1869 “petrified man” exhibited as wonder, quickly exposed as carved gypsum — museum-education staple about evidence standards.
Yale’s undeciphered illustrated codex: the library dates it to the late 15th or 16th century and does not endorse decipherment claims.
