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Buckle up for a wild ride through the hall of near-misses! We're about to spill the beans on the top ten forgeries that were so close to pulling off the

For "Artifice," her third young-adult novel set during World War II, Nashville author Sharon Cameron paints a colorful and suspenseful thriller inspired by historical heroes and villains living in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation.

<strong>23 November 1953</strong>: Scientists pronounce the jaw and eyetooth found in 1912 and supposedly evidence of an early human species to be ‘deliberate fakes’

Han Van Meegeren, a Dutch artist and art forger, is said to have duped buyers out of as much as $30 million. He gained notoriety for his forgeries during and after World War II. When the war ended, Van Meegeren was arrested for selling cultural property to the Nazis. More specifically, he was charged with selling a painting to Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, one of the most powerful figures in Nazi Germany.

In 1998 curators at the Courtauld Institute received an anonymous phone call informing them that 11 drawings in their collection were fakes. The caller intimated that he was an associate of the notorious forger Eric Hebborn, who had claimed in his 1991 memoir, Drawn to Trouble, to have sold the institute a fake Rowlandson. The