A Gem of a Mystery

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2025-11-03 15:10:10

Antiquities curator Kenneth Lapatin has spent much of the pandemic doing detective work on a 200-year-old cold case—a beautiful carved “ancient” amethyst in the Getty collection that turned out to be a modern forgery.Questions were first raised about the gem’s authenticity in 2009, and by 2012 Lapatin had seen enough evidence to know that the gem was not ancient, as had been believed for...

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