Forged texts In The Middle Ages: Why Holy Men Became Counterfeiters
Published: February 4, 2021 at 7:08 am The desire to deceive – and be deceived – is universal, and the forging of documents as old as writing itself. In ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, local priests – the experts in literacy – forged inscriptions in the names of earlier pharaohs and kings, claiming rights of preferential treatment. And scarcely a society can be found since in which such skulduggery was not practised in some form or another. Advertisement But few regions in worl...
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