Why is it a hoax?
Every attempt to try to age man earlier than 6000 or so years has turned out to be a hoax. I mean a really tire hoax. I think it’s because the Bible dates the age of man to around 6000 years.
There is simply no reliable record of man’s existence including written historical records earlier than 5000 or 6000 years old. Such hoaxes are meant to support the unsupportable Darwin theory of evolution of man which even Darwin himself had problems with.
Another mass of confusion is mixing up the age of man versus the age of the earth. Although it appears the age of man is around 6K years, the age of the earth is millions or billions of years old. No hoax there.