Faking it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1394141,00.html
The discovery that ancient artefacts sacred to Jewish history are
forgeries has sent shockwaves through the museum world. But was the
gang behind the scam only interested in cash, or did they have other
motives? Rachel Shabi investigates
Thursday January 20, 2005
The Guardian
It all started with the pomegranate. On Christmas Eve, the Israel
museum in West Jerusalem made an announcement about a tiny ivory
pomegranate that had been on display at the museum since 1988, believed
to have come from the First Temple of Israel. The pomegranate, the
museum sheepishly revealed, was actually a fake. It was still a very
old and beautiful carving, but the inscription denoting its First
Temple origins had been forged.
Rachel Shabi
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