#fake artifacts

[mewbusi]

Alright, so I’ve been working on this for a while. Pizza tower got me all inspired so I went ahead and sat down and made a very large selection of Magic the Gathering cards for it. I did my best to make sure that the cards had well representative effects and such and are kinda balanced, but I have not tested any of them. You are more than welcome to try them out with your playgroup if you wish, and feel free to let me know how they turn out. :)

For those confused with how Pizzaface/Pizzahead works, they are two sides of a transforming double face card, Pizzaface is the front and Pizzahead the back.

As well, tokens for all these cards are under the cut and I used a local version of CardConjurer. I followed this tutorial to set it up. If you want to get the cards with 1/8th in bleed and the cardconjurer file you can get them here.

I did not make any of the card art by myself, and I sourced it from other artists. Artist’s names are in the artist description of each card and links to each of their pages are bellow. Direct links to the art used are hyperlinked in the name of the card bellow, and other links to the artist are after that.

Peppino Spaghetti: Novanim’s Website Their Linktree

The Noise: MryStranger‘s Carrd

Gustavo and Brick: DirtyDaisyDuke’s Twitter

Pepperman: @nostradel​ Their Twitter

The Vigilante: @octoes-mp4​ Their Twitter

Fake Peppino: KillerCarousel’s Linktree @weavilegrrl​

Snick: ExtraRare’s Twitter

Pizzaface: DiamondFishstck’s Twitter

Pizzahead: @sandrathachao​ Their Deviantart

All other pieces of art are sourced from the game, and are listed as McPig’s.: https://twitter.com/PizzaTowergame

#pizza tower #magic the gathering #mtg #peppino #the noise #gustavo #brick the rat #brick #pepperman #the vigilante #fake peppino #snick #pizzaface #pizzahead #taunt #parry #cheeseslime #token #creature #artifact #instant #legendary creature #commander #custom cards

[pigeon-noises]

Guilt

#cyno #cyno genshin #genshin impact #digital art #genshin fanart #I am blessed by the gacha and cursed by whatever governs artifact stats #can't see anything over the hyperbloom reactions when I play him but that's okay #I have a lot of Thoughts about fake ears boy

[blueiskewl]

Ancient Roman coins thought to be fakes now authenticated

A new analysis of several Roman coins unearthed in 1713—long thought to be forgeries—suggests that they are authentic, providing evidence that the leader portrayed on one of the coins was indeed in power during the 260s CE. Paul Pearson of University College London, U.K., and colleagues present these findings in PLOS ONE.

For much of ancient Roman history, Roman mints produced coins featuring portraits of current emperors. In 1713, a group of such coins was allegedly discovered in Transylvania, some of them featuring a portrait labeled with the name "Sponsian," although there are no other historical records that a Roman emperor named Sponsian ever existed.

While the Transylvanian coins follow the general style of mid-third century Roman coins, they diverge in certain stylistic characteristics and in how they were manufactured, leading many experts to dismiss them as forgeries created to sell to collectors. However, the coins are also uncharacteristic of the forgeries that would have been of interest to past collectors. Additionally, in 1713, "Sponsian" was not yet known to be a name that had ever existed in ancient Rome.

To further investigate the Transylvanian coins' authenticity, Pearson and colleagues conducted a deeper assessment of the physical characteristics of four of the coins, including the Sponsian coin. They applied visible light microscopy, ultra-violet imaging, scanning electron microscopy, and reflection mode Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy to the four coins and, for comparison, two undoubtedly authentic Roman gold coins.

The analysis revealed deep micro-abrasion patterns typically associated with coins that were in circulation for an extensive period of time. The researchers also analyzed earthen deposits on the coins, finding evidence that after extensive circulation, the coins were buried for a prolonged period before being exhumed. Together, the new evidence strongly suggests the coins are authentic.

Considering the historical record alongside the new evidence from the coins, the researchers suggest that Sponsian was an army commander in the Roman Province of Dacia during a period of military strife in the 260s CE.

Lead author of the paper, Paul N. Pearson of University College, London, adds, "Scientific analysis of these ultra-rare coins rescues the emperor Sponsian from obscurity. Our evidence suggests he ruled Roman Dacia, an isolated gold mining outpost, at a time when the empire was beset by civil wars and the borderlands were overrun by plundering invaders."

Curator of Numismatics at The Hunterian, Jesper Ericsson, adds, "This has been a really exciting project for The Hunterian. Not only do we hope that this encourages further debate about Sponsian as a historical figure, but also the investigation of coins relating to him held in other museums across Europe."

#Ancient Roman coins thought to be fakes now authenticated #coins #roman coins #ancient artifacts #archeology #archeolgst #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #roman empire #roman history #roman legion #emperor sponsian

[enpr-ss]

PearlescentMoon made the advancement [Death Loop Hole]

#pearlescentmoon #fake decked out advancements #decked out 2 #hermitcraft #enpr-ss #she exited the dungeon without dying #by falling through the powdered snow LOL #a technicality but she did it! #even victors die to the victory ravager #and obviously it's a reference to the death loop artifact #i'm pretty proud of this advancement name

[lxxse-cannxn]

↳✦║𝑳𝒂𝒆'𝒛𝒆𝒍║

"Brutal? Blood still flows through his own veins. I was positively gentle!"

✦/✦/✦

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◤𝐏𝐒𝐃/𝐏𝐒𝐃◢

#stimboard #stimblr #my stimboards #stim #aesthetic stim #green #red #laezel #lae'zel #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #larian studios #eyes #hands #swords #blood #fake blood #artifact

[glitchcel]

Playing a hunt carry in 2024 is actually fucking miserable you people don't even get it I am just like sisyphus

#i main dhil so that's one team all is well and good in the world #the other one... lord save me the options are level 60 blade who isn't getting leveled any time soon #he's here for yaoi purposes and because i got him at 2 pity #you got yanqing who is my sweet little boy whom i never farmed artifacts for #so he's on like 4* unleveled hp boots #and seele who's literally a fake hunt character #so obviously i picked her i have her on 2 piece musketeer and 2 piece fucking #wastelander yeah bitch imaginary set never entered the quantum domain once #i 11 star cleared pure fiction with these two by sheer willpower #sigh... i want jingliu...

[eric-the-bmo]

So for my game tonight- Theodore's unconscious right now, but as soon as he wakes up... Imagine this, because this is what the session's opening will be like for him:

You're ripped out of whatever dream-state you were in (was it a nice dream? did you forget everything you've gone through while you were sleeping?). You're on the floor.

You realize your body Hurts. Your nose is broken.

Maybe you'll vaguely realize where you are, or maybe you'll try to remember what happened-

But you're going to get decked with a baseball bat, held by your former friend/party member, who most likely has the intent to kill you. He's knows it's you.

Panic- fight back? Do you fight out of instinct or because you remember what you've caused and decided this is a viable act of karma, so you fight to get him to hit you more?

If you haven't by now, realize the consequences of your actions: Your mentor, who kept you from dropping out and had hope for you, both for the changeling and human world, is gone- possessed- and it's your fault. Your former friend's boyfriend is also gone, you tried to kill another party member's friend (and the party in general), and you've practically kickstarted a war while you were possessed by the BBEG. Your party already lost some trust in you earlier before- all trust is obliterated because of this.

Do you have anything left?

#ended up writing a whole essay in the tags again #im so normal about how horrible his life has become #he just wanted to have some escapism but got caught up into a resistance #and his quest for investigation and escapism lead to intense trauma but he couldnt just Leave #he has to stay and help save the world now #so he's plagued with nightmares and the escapism has become worse that what he originally tried to escape from #but he keeps going #because while both options are Bad at least there's fantasy and wonder here- he cant leave #and so he's offered power by the bbeg and fights against it #but he steals its artifact and tells himself its for research #and then he gets offered power by a villain and declines- he doesnt want that he just wants knowledge #he wants things to think about to distract himself from everything from the fact he's a college failure & from everything he's been through #and then the artifact offers him an escape with the possibility to change things- the Power to do that and make things better for himself #and to maybe release some of the anger buried in his heart #and theodore knows its fake. he Knows. #but he fails to resist just for a moment and now he's lost everything #and what does he have left? #he was failing college anyway and now there's no one in the changeling realm to help him. he's the cause of his own ruin #and so he's going to spiral. #his rage at himself with be extended outwards until he finally and completely destroys himself #theodore absolutely deserves consequences for what he's done #but that doesnt deny the fact i view him as a tragic character #(though i do worry if he comes across as too pathetic and/or whiny at times) #the discovery of the supernatural world made his life worse not only bc of outside factors but also bc of his own actions #Theodore was made to be a tragic character- he was never meant to have a happy ending- and by god is that happening #eric finally speaks #ttrpg oc #theodore carter #rainbow in the dark #ttrpg character

[nervousenby]

I know these pictures are shit but pspsspspsps Caroline Abbott girlies look at the cool shit at my local science museum’s exhibit on Lake Ontario and the USS Scourge!!!

#they have a fake ship you can go on!! and actual artifacts!! AND A FUCKING SENSORY ROOM (which I didn’t show bc too many pics sorry) #they also had a section about Lake Ontario’s ecosystem and how it affects us!! #and a water table!! and stuff about indigenous water protectors!! #I cannot stress enough how dope this exhibit is #lake ontario #war of 1812 #caroline abbott #too many tags #autistic joy #AND CANNONBALLS!!!

[ausetkmt]

The Rosetta Stone has been in the hands of the British since the early 1800s. But now Egyptians say they want it back. Repatriate Rashid, an online petition started by a group of Egyptian archeologists, is calling for the British Museum to return the ancient artifact to its rightful owners.

As the petition points out, Egypt was controlled by the Turkish Empire and was not in control of its cultural heritage at the time the four foot granite stone was taken from them. Therefore, the stone and other artifacts the Brits took back then are not rightfully theirs.

The petition states:

“The Rosetta stone was undeniably a spoil of war and an act of plunder that was outlawed in the 17th and 19th centuries. The presence of these artifacts in the British Museum to this day supports past colonial endeavors of cultural violence and deprives Egypt as the country of origin of not only the physical return of these objects but also of their important role as Egyptian cultural heritage that spans a millennia of rich history.”

The Rosetta stone is a piece of a larger stone slab with a message carved into it about King Ptolemy V. But because that message was inscribed in three different scripts, including Ancient Greek, the stone became an important tool to help scientists decode hieroglyphics.

The stone was “discovered” by Napoleon’s army in 1799. But when the French surrendered Egypt to Britain in 1801, the Treaty of Alexandria gave them the stone and other artifacts along with it.

As the petition points out, returning the stone and other artifacts to Egypt is a major step in righting the wrongs of the past. “History can’t be changed, but it can be corrected. And despite the withdrawal of political, military, and governmental rule of the British Empire from Egypt over a century ago, decolonisation is far from being over.”

#Rosetta Stone #Emerald Tablets #Hieroglyphics #Egypt #Britain stole the Rosetta Stone for the museum #napoleon's lil theifin ass #stolen legacy #stolen artifacts #return our stolen artifacts #colonializations thefts #the Fake Treaty of Alexandria

[waffliesinyoface]

i think the canonical reason ryou has the ring is because his dad bought it at a shady stall in egypt. which is a classic origin story for cursed artifacts but like. the millenium items are solid gold. no graverobber worth their salt is going to sell it to some random englishman for a fraction of its value.

so, here's my theory for why that happened: the items are equal parts gold, liquefied flesh, condensed dark magic, and trapped souls. i like to think the last 3 have some effect on the physical properties of the metal.

like, for example, fucking up the density. or preventing it from tarnishing. or, just generally, being a lot more indestructible than gold generally is (gold is, notably, a very soft metal)

basically i like to think that whoever found it went "oh this thing is super fake, bet I can find a gullible tourist though!"

#i like the idea of extremely extremely valuable and rare artifacts being mistaken for something ultimately worthless #would bakura be impressed by the salesman successfully convincing ryou's dad into buying something he believes is fake #or would he be pissed at someone having the audacity to claim the ring that houses his soul is mere fools gold #who can say!! #either way he's ryou's problem now!! #yugioh

[fatherentropy]

Astral Bias 1.1351e 30-ish years ago

#CWart #Astral Bias 1.1351e #Eris Glas #Cecilia Vasylyk #Adagio Ramos #E.N. Zhao #1 part wanting to draw them. 1 part wanting to prove to myself I can in fact draw like this #fake artifacting is a good way of showing a photo is old in a scifi setting where sepia would just be silly right #if you saw the version w/o his shoulder cape emblem no you didn't

[papertiigertrolls]

a heem heem... more dancestors 😳

this is avicus and he's Cursed with burdens and torments every day lol

#AND he gets no bitches!!! #but yeah he collects magical artifacts and thinks vampires are fake news 🤡 #homestuck #my art #fantrolls #papertiigertrolls

[doublebattled]

headcanon; man maybe someday I'll be able to write a worldbuilding headcanon that isn't the length of a short novel. So anyway, supplement to the previous headcanon, some artifacts that are on display in the museum portion of the league! Historic Costume Recreations from a few major eras of Unova's history, based off of both surviving clothing and historical artwork. A few items were added to this collection recently, as the league hosted a charity solstice masquerade ball, complete with historical costuming worn by some of the League's officials! (Proceeds from the event went towards the reconstruction of Opelucid and Lanucosa following the events of b2w2.) While many of these pieces were auctioned off (they were, after all, designed in part by Elesa). Hilda's costume featured a few reconstructed armor pieces based on what was believed to be the original Hero of Ideals' armor (the outfit itself is essentialy a black version of Zendaya's chainmail met gala dress, you know the one.) Iris' gown, based on one worn by one of the first recorded queens of Unova, is also present. Both are on display alongside the original designs and approximate illustrations of the original outfits they were based on. Some original pieces from destroyed or unsalvageable portions of the castle, largely decorative elements like carved bricks, murals, some statues that were salvaged from the garden, etc. These are displayed alongside a large archeologically-recreated blueprint of the original castle. Though the actual throne is in the champion's chamber, a recreation of it is on display here as well, with several photos of the last several generations of champions seated in it. (Hilda is still mad she wasn't allowed to wear a cardboard burger king crown in her photo.) A large section is actually dedicated to the preservation and display of Isshu culture, which has sort of been steadily declining for decades. (I mean, it's been on the decline for centuries, basically since the fall of the old kingdom, but it did remain steady for a good portion of time.) This also includes some pieces by modern Isshu artists, most created by folks from the Village of Dragons. A more recent addition to this particular section is a display detailing the reconstruction of the old Isshu language from some surviving ancient writings, including some of the original notes from the researcher who pioneered the effort, one Ardbert Blake (generously donated by his surviving family members, the Blake twins), and a bit of insight into how this was used to decipher the writing in the Abyssal Ruins. Finally, of course, is historical tools and weaponry! Like the clothing collection, they are displayed according to the era in which they originated. The crowning jewel of this collection is an ancient round shield engraved with intricate, interconnected runes. This is the Shield of Seals, the oldest known Isshu artifact left in the world. Unbeknownst to the Historical Society, however, the league is also in possession of its companion: the original Sword of Seals. While the original artifact was widely believed to have been lost following the fall of Isshu, presumably destroyed. However, some years ago—during Alder's championship—the Galarian government gifted Unova with (returned) an ancient sword, believed to have been "recovered" (stolen) sometime between the fall of Isshu and foundation of Unova. While significant for its age and the very intricate, seemingly ornamental engravings on it, there's no real way to determine that this is the Sword of Seals, as no real concrete record of it still exists.

#hilda also INSISTS that the league is haunted #this is an ongoing debate amongst the e4 #hit the books ★ { headcanon. } #anyway their dad was a college professor in opelucid #specialized in linguistics and translation #also - I LIKE MUSEUMS OKAY??? DON'T JUDGE ME FOR MY WEIRDLY IN-DEPTH FAKE MUSEUM EXHIBIT #keeps this short bc while i could spend all day coming up with specific artifacts i won't i'm not That insane

[dejahisashmom]

The Spear of Longinus: What happened to the Holy Lance? - Historic Mysteries

The Spear of Longinus: What happened to the Holy Lance? – Historic Mysteries

https://www.historicmysteries.com/spear-of-longinus/

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#bible #Christianity #Crucifixion #Fake out #Gospel of John #Holy Lance #Holy Spear #Jerusalem #Jesus #Judaism #New Testament #Religion #Religious Artifacts #Religious Texts #Roman Soldier #Romans #Sabbath #Saint Longinus #Spear of Destiny #Spear of Longinus #St. Peter&039;s Basilica

[eli-kittim]

The Cloths of Christ: Holy Relics or Fakes?

Eli Kittim

Don’t be naive. Fakes, forgeries, and frauds are much more prevalent than you might think. Just as the “post-2002” Dead Sea Scrolls are fake, so are many Christian relics. For instance, take the “Titulus Crucis,” a piece of wood. Christian tradition claims that the relic contains a portion of the True Cross. Scientists, however, consider it to be a medieval forgery:

In 2002, the University of Arizona

conducted radiocarbon dating tests on the

artifact, and it was shown to have been

made between 980 and 1146 AD. The

carbon dating results were published in the

peer-reviewed journal Radiocarbon.

— Wiki

The same holds true for many other relics. Yet despite these setbacks, Christian archaeologists continue to make sensational claims that they have found the burning bush, the tomb of Jesus, the house of Peter, the Veil of Veronica (which btw is never mentioned in the canonical Gospels), and the like. They’re doing a great disservice to Christianity by promoting sensationalism and fake news. By advertizing hoaxes, fakes, and forgeries, they’re setting up Christianity to be mocked and ridiculed, and ultimately rejected. Once people realize that these relics are nothing more than fakes, frauds, and forgeries, they would want nothing to do with Christianity. In other words, the veracity of the Christian message is at stake. They’re setting people up to apostatize and deconstruct their faith. This is actually an attack on——not a support of——the Christian faith!

Pious Frauds

The Sudarium of Oviedo cloth——which is believed to be the post-mortem cloth that was wrapped around Jesus’ head, as mentioned in John 20:6–7——has been dated to around 700 AD by radiocarbon dating:

It’s a hoax!

The Manoppello Image of Jesus Christ’s face on a cloth is also a fake:

Most researchers state that, despite fringe

claims of divine origins, the face on the veil

at Manoppello clearly conforms in

appearance to the characteristics of an

artificially-made image and that stylistically

it is similar to images dating to the late

Middle Ages or early Renaissance.

— Wiki

The Shroud of Turin is also a 13th to 14th century hoax:

In 1988, radiocarbon dating by three

different laboratories established that the

shroud's linen material was produced

between the years 1260 and 1390 (to a

95% confidence level). Defenders of the

authenticity of the shroud have questioned

those results, usually on the basis that the

samples tested might have been

contaminated or taken from a medieval

repair to the original fabric. Such fringe

hypotheses have been refuted by carbon-

dating experts and others based on

evidence from the shroud itself, including

the medieval repair hypothesis, the bio-

contamination hypothesis and the carbon

monoxide hypothesis.

— Wiki

However, there was a recent research study on the Shroud of Turin (April 2022) by Dr. Liberato De Caro’s team which used the new “Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering” or WAXS method to determine the age of the shroud. They claim that they found a match with a piece of fabric from c. AD 55-74 from the siege of Masada in Israel. However, it is as yet unknown whether or not the findings are accurate. As far as I know, they have not been independently confirmed or multiply-attested by other laboratories. Dr. De Caro himself noted that his work was simply “evaluated and peer-reviewed by three other independent experts,” including the editor of the journal “Heritage,” which published his findings. But that doesn’t mean that the results were correct, multiply attested, or independently confirmed. It just means that a couple of editors thought that the experiment was worthy of publication. In fact, Dr. Liberato De Caro himself expressed the need for further research, especially “blind” tests to “avoid any possible bias in the data analysis by the authors of the research.” Bottom line, this new study has not yet conclusively refuted the 1988 radiocarbon dating findings by three different laboratories which established that the shroud is a medieval hoax.

As early as 1390, about 35 years after the

Shroud first emerged in France, Pierre

d'Arcis, the Catholic bishop in Troyes, wrote

to Pope Clement VII that the shroud was ‘a

clever sleight of hand’ by someone ‘falsely

declaring this was the actual shroud in

which Jesus was enfolded in the tomb to

attract the multitude so that money might

cunningly be wrung from them.’

— NBC News

The Roman Catholic Church considers the

Shroud to be an icon, not a holy relic.

— NBC News

Now, a new study using modern forensic

techniques suggests the bloodstains on the

shroud are completely unrealistic,

supporting arguments that it is a fake.

— Livescience

‘If you look at the bloodstains as a whole,

just as you would when working at a crime

scene, you realize they contradict each

other,’ Borrini said. ‘That points to the

artificial origin of these stains.’

— Livescience

Enough already with the hoaxes and the

fake news❗️

#relics #artifacts #burialcloth #HolyRelics #forgeries #frauds #TitulusCrucis #ελικιτίμ #fake news #medievalforgeries #radiocarbondating #Elikittim #VeilofVeronica #icons #Fakes #the little book of revelation #WAXS #SudariumofOviedo #bloodstains #Τομικροβιβλιοτηςαποκαλυψης #hoaxes #TheManoppelloImage #shroud of turin #catholic church #LiberatoDeCaro #Piousfrauds #forensictechniques #Christianrelics #religiousrelics #archaeology

[sweaterkittensahoy]

reddit removed two of my posts from r/crochet because I was “encouraging illegal activity.”

Which. Fair. I was explaining how easy it is to steal from Hobby Lobby.

They don’t have door sensors or barcodes, and I believe their overall security camera coverage is fake or shit. 

You see, when barcodes were invented, evangelicals were convinced it was the sign of the devil (or government tracking; hard to tell). The point is, Hobby Lobby doesn’t have bar codes to this day because the devil could jump in your belly button.

And if you don’t have barcodes, you CAN’T have door sensors because the devil could jump right up a vagina, and you could get impregnated with the antichrist, and Hobby Lobby would have to make a very difficult choice about their anti-contraception views. 

Oh, and they knowingly stole a fuckton of ancient artifacts, and the money they paid for those (not all stealing is just taking; sometimes money changes hands) funded fucking ISIS. 

So. If you’re intellectually curious. You can steal from Hobby Lobby REALLY EASILY.

#hobby lobby #be queer do crimes #be gay do crimes #i promise you they hate all of us queers as much as they hate evolution and barcodes