How did a cat fool The Metropolitan Museum of Art?
A bronze cat, believed to be 2,300 years old, was one of the most popular sculptures in the Egyptian Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Despite its popularity for nearly 25 years, a few museum officials had reason to doubt the statue’s authenticity. After X-raying the 15-inch-high figure and scanning a small portion of it with an electron microscope, the museum reluctantly declared in 1987 that the sculpture was “in all probability a modern forgery.
