If someone claimed to have found the Holy Grail, or the Ark of the Covenant, how would we verify its authenticity? Against what known specimen would we compare it to know the truth? About the best we could do is to try and determine its age (by making assumptions about the past) and see if that represents approximately the appropriate age for the real artifact, but that just proves that it came from the right time and that it looks about right.
Mokalus of Borg
PS - Something as vague as the Grail must surely be lost forever.
PPS - Though I guess we could compare it to the Indiana Jones version.
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