Armatura della Colchide

[jvrjenivs]

could be strange, but (up to opinon and experience) the main part of historican and archaelogist are not able to identify fake weapons.
A lot of them study marble, staute, architecture an so on, but here in Italy almost none study ancient weapons.
Often they know everything about a temple but in the meantime have not idea what an imperial-gallic helmet is, or a maiz gladius, or a pugio.

I don't agree with you totally. There have been a lot of extensive studies on this subject, by Russel-Robinson, Bishop, Coulston, Miks and Obmann, just to name a few. What is for cetrain is that these are very specialistic studies and it seems that there still are different markets with language barriers. Sometimes I get the impression that the French, Italian and German/English market do interact with each other too less. These studies are done, but some are in English, some in German, some in French. You have to locate them first and then being able to read them, which could be another problem.