Who Is Selling Aliens? Nazca Humanoid Mummies: The Big Fraud. Episode-1 | Fake science spotlight

 In 2017 Peru made international headlines when mummies of weird three-fingered humanoids were found in that country. The mummies seemed to be anything but fake, with X-rays and CT-scans allegedly confirming them to be genuine, while C14 tests proved their old age. Genetic, histological and chemical tests all seemed to confirm the mummies were real. But what were they? Aliens? Mutants? Genetic experiments of the ancients? Or were they just a fake? 

Alexander Sokolov investigating the Nazca mummies, with the help from Russian scientists and our colleagues from Peru. In episode 1 you will learn:

- Who found the mysterious mummies, and what Peruvian counterfeiters have to do with the find;

- What Russian scientists (and pseudo-scientists too!) have to do with the mummies;

- How experts can be swindled by fake ancient artifacts;

- How ‘creative restoration’ works in Peru and who fakes the history of the Andean cultures