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Germany's 'Sky Disk' a fake, archaeologist says

The Guardian, 2005. Taipei Times (reprinted from The Guardian), 3 March 2005.

Report of Peter Schauer's statement to the court in Halle that the disc was "nothing more than an amateurish forgery", with an artificially made patina and machine-made marks.

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The modern-forgery claim.

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The Guardian (2005). Germany's 'Sky Disk' a fake, archaeologist says. Taipei Times (reprinted from The Guardian), 3 March 2005. https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/03/03/2003225307
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