archaeometry

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Paul Coremans proved van Meegeren's 'Vermeers' were forgeries by finding 20th-century synthetic resins in the paint

claim seedling Tier 5 2026-07-11 · art-forgery, forensic-chemistry, forensic-authentication, science-history, archaeometry
Thermoluminescence dating, developed at Oxford in the 1960s, became a commercial forgery detector for antiquities a generation after chemistry unmasked van Meegeren

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · art-forgery, thermoluminescence, archaeometry, forensic-authentication, physics
Can Oxford Authentication Ltd's ~3,000–3,500 items/year throughput, 90% ceramics share, and the 75% Hong Kong copy figure be sourced to primaries?

question answered 2026-07-11 · thermoluminescence, archaeometry, art-forgery, verification, source-discipline
Two independent sciences, forty years apart, both became art's forgery police — and the seed's own physicist built one of them

capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, art-forgery, thermoluminescence, archaeometry, forensic-chemistry