FATHER CRESPI

Father Crespi is still one of the most controversial figures linked to historical research. There are those who consider him a great archaeologist, who was lucky enough to be in the right place and therefore had the opportunity to collect thousands of archaeological finds of enormous historical importance; on the contrary, there are those who consider him a mythomaniac and a forger. Official science oscillates between silence and the second hypothesis.
Nevertheless, the events and the findings of Father Crespi raise great doubts and, if his discoveries turn out to be true, ancient history would have to be rewritten.
The text tells the entire story of Father Crespi from the beginning of the collection of archaeological finds, to the creation of the museum, to its fire, to the mystery of the Cava de Tayos, to the unproven statements of von Däniken, Wingate and Moricz. Until the discovery of a large part of the treasure in the vault of an Ecuadorian bank. It contains all the known images of Father Crespi's finds with the identification of possible authentic finds and those presumably false up to those clearly false. In 62 photographs the history of the most mysterious collection of the twentieth century.