Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:An Italian tourist attraction sold to visitors as a Roman theater full of Neolithic, Roman, and Greek artifacts was outed as a fake. In the world of art fraud, Franco Malosso, known as Franco Alessandro Molosso Maltarel von Rosenfranz, went big. The Italian constructed a fake Roman theater, complete with stone steps, columns, and Greek-style statues, advertised it to tourists as a bona-fide ancient site from 393 C.E. The attraction, complete with tours, operated for several years, showing off supposed Neolithic, Roman, and Greek artifacts, everything from the theater to statues. An amphitheater is elliptical—think: the Colosseum—while a semicircular design, such as the Berico forgery, is known merely as a theater.