Over 100 years ago the unearthing of a skull in the Sussex countryside became an international story of scientific discovery, ...

"Piltdown Man Hoax Is Exposed," announced the New York Times on November 21, 1953. "Part of the skull of the Piltdown man, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, has been declared a hoax ...

LONDON (AP) — It was an archaeological hoax that fooled scientists for decades. A century on, researchers are determined to find out who was responsible for Piltdown Man, the missing link that never ...

For four decades, Piltdown Man was celebrated as the “missing link” between apes and humans. Discovered in England in 1912, ...

A new paper published by the Royal Society takes a stand on just who was responsible for one of the greatest hoaxes in the history of science. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In the early 20th century the search for our ...

The resolution of the question of whether science does map the truth of reality or whether it is just another myth has consequences for us in our daily lives. In the 1920s, fundamentalists wanted to ...

Scholarly sleuths trying to get to the bottom of the Piltdown hoax believe they have at long last got their man, the mastermind in the most famous science fraud of the century. The skull and jaw of ...