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From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: April 14, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

THE DAY the Louvre and all its grave curators became April Fools is just over a hundred years ago. On 1 April 1896 Professor Heron de Villefosse, director of the department of Roman and Greek antiquities at the Louvre, announced to the French nation that he had acquired "a miracle of Greek goldwork": the Tiara of Saitapharnes.

He went on to describe the tiara's "unbelievable state of preservation", and "the unheard of richness of its motifs: art at its most delicate and pure". The tiara, said Heron de Villefosse, had been found in a burial mound in the Crimea, and it dated from the third ...

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