"Nothing is more confusing to archeologists and historians then old hoaxes, hoaxes that are now themselves parts of history. The crystal skulls, for example, which were "discovered" in the jungles of Belize in the 1920s and said to be 3,600 year old Mayan artifacts, but were actually carved in the 1940s, or the Voynich Manuscript, an undecipherable coded and illustrated manuscript from between the 1300s and 1400s, which is likely a series of gibberish meant to either discredit Jesuit Priest Athanasius Kircher, or possibly to gain fame and fortune for the unknown author. Or the Cerne Abbas Giant, an enormous giant in the English countryside holding a club and sporting a huge phallus, said to be neolithic, but much more likely the invention of some rowdy 1600s pranksters." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet