In the 70s, geologists found a huge stone in Kazakhstan, barely sticking out of the ground, entirely covered with ancient runic letters. The news was sensational, the local scientific community was jubilant! Still - there was found indisputable evidence of the presence of ancient writing among the Kazakhs! The breed was estimated to be at least 3000 years old! The stone was honorably transported and installed in the courtyard of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, and historians and runologists rushed to write articles and studies on a hot topic. Triumph!
Unfortunately, life isn't just unfair to blacks. The stone, having become a local landmark, a few years later attracted the attention of cunning filmmakers from "Kazakhfilm", and there was an embarrassment.
After a short trial, it turned out that a few years earlier the film studio had filmed the film "Kyz-Zhibek", and the "ancient letters" were knocked out by a staff artist on the first piece of rock that came across, for a more naturalistic frame. The well-known photographs (almost from the history textbook) of Orkhon-Yenisei stones were taken as a sample.
Over the current delicate situation, whoever has not wrinkled their snide nose, from "Fitil" and "Komsomolskaya Pravda", to famous writers and historians of Kazakhstan.
Kazakhfilm artists are still disliked in the academic environment of Alma-Ata, defended candidate and doctoral dissertations remained on the conscience of the candidates and doctors themselves, and the stone was quietly removed from sight. The spiteful critics say that the stone fell into the foundation pit of a nearby construction site and thus formed the basis of one of the new buildings of the Kazakh SSR Academy of Sciences.