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The Piltdown Hoax

A strange skull unearthed in rural Sussex fooled the scientific world for decades before the truth finally surfaced.

A strange skull unearthed in rural Sussex fooled the scientific world for decades before the truth finally surfaced. Simon Furber heads to Piltdown to discover how a local solicitor managed to con the world.

Image: The reconstructed Piltdown skull on display at the Natural History Museum in 1913 (Getty)

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