Hoax or History: The Michigan Relics

Hoax or History: The Michigan Relics explores the mystery and controversy that has endured since the late 1800s around ancient artifacts found in the Great Lakes region of the United States. Thousands of artifacts, with strange writing and imagary that look like stories from the Old Testament.
A national controversy in the early 1900s, The Michigan Relics became the focus of intense investigation by church leaders concerned that these artifacts could be proof of the lost tribes of Israel inhabiting North America during the third and fourth centurys. Early scientists and academics dismissed the artifacts as frauds and yet the artifacts continued to be discovered for 30 years in burial mounds throughout the state of Michigan. The artifacts passed into storage and were mostly forgotten until the last decade of the 20th century when new research would bring the controversy back to life.
In Hoax or History: The Michigan Relics, leading experts present compelling arguments on both sides of the controversy about the nature of the artifacts, leaving the viewer to decide if the Michigan Relics are really history, or hoax. (official distributor synopsis)