British researchers will soon begin an examination of the remains of Piltdown man – the world’s greatest scientific hoax – in order to reveal the identities of the perpetrators. The stained fragments of skull and teeth removed from the gravel pit at Piltdown a century ago will undergo infra-red, laser and spectrometer scanning to reveal their precise chemical composition and potentially implicate one or more of the hoax’s many suspects.
The antiquarian and archaeological enthusiast Charles Dawson was almost certainly involved, having found the initial pieces and, while being highly regarded at the time, having been subsequently shown to have perpetrated a large assortment of archaeological frauds with Piltdown man being “the culmination of a life’s work”. However other prime suspects include the famous author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Jesuit philosopher and palaeontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, Sir Arthur Keith and more recently Martin AC Hinton (Woodward’s assistant) whose initials were found upon a trunk containing fossils stained in the same manner as those of Piltdown man.
Work has begun on a project to create an archive of the history of human settlement, past environmental change and landscape evolution at one of the earliest modern human occupation sites outside of Africa. Lake Mungo contains the oldests known evidence of cremation and ritual ochre burial in the world.
A new era of Egyptian archaeology may be upon us! Seventeen lost pyramids have been identified in Egypt, along with over 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements, using 
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