The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

[Jorge_Stolfi]

No one who had spent time with authentic manuscripts could look at this codex today and not immediately realize that it was a modern forgery. While not "proof", this does speak to the idea of the VMS being a modern forgery - there's just no way anyone could pull that off convincingly.

I don't doubt it.  But just curious.  The date of that forged codex is 1890, right? When was it found to be a forgery? 

I gather that the Vinland Map was forged in the 1950s but the first solid evidence of forgery was found in 1972, and it still took a decade or two for that to become a consensus.  Does that mean that forensics is catching up with the forgers?  Or are they still decades ahead?

All the best, --stolfi