Armatura della Colchide

[Matt Lukes]

Yes, I could agree, if the armour would have been taken to Italy, discussed in a close circle of scholars, detected as what it actually is -a fake- and left in a closet or sold at a curiosity auction.

On the opposite, it was celebrated as the find of the century, it took the energies (and financial support) of an university with its departments and laboratories, it was shown on TV (although during a science-fiction-oriented programme), it was publicly exhibited following to a quasi-inernational congress about the Roman presence in Dacia and western Asia, it was announced that it will be studied and published from a team of worldwide-known experts...

Yes, the best could let silence and oblivion fall on this story, but in my opinion, this wouldn't avoid that similar stories would happen again.

Best wishes,

E.L.

Kind of like Al Capone's Vault... much ado about literally nothing...