The remains at the centre of the famous Piltdown Man hoax will go on display for the first time since they were found to be fake.
The Piltdown Man skull, discovered in a chalk pit at Piltdown, near Uckfield in 1912, was hailed as the missing evolutionary link between man and ape.
Some 40 years passed before advances in science exposed the find as a fraud - it was a human skull with an ape's jawbone grafted on.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Piltdown Man's exposure, the fossilised remains will go on display at the Natural History Museum on November 25.
The London museum will recreate the excitement at the time of Piltdown Man's discovery as part of its Pfizer Annual Science Forum.
The identity of Piltdown Man and the culprits who had the scientific world fooled still remains a mystery.
Most believe the skull's finder, Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist, played a part but Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes and former resident of nearby Crowborough, is also suspected.
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