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posted by martyb on Wednesday March 18 2020, @09:24PM   Printer-friendly

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

A team of workers at Art Fraud Insights, LLC, has found that all of the Dead Sea Scroll (DSS) fragments housed at the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. are fake. They have published their findings on their company website.

The Dead Sea scrolls are a collection of scrolls found in the Qumran Caves near the shore of the Dead Sea. They were discovered by a Bedouin shepherd in 1946. Since that time, the scrolls have been identified as ancient Jewish manuscripts created over the last three centuries BCE and the first century CE. They are housed in the Shrine of the Book on the grounds of the Israel Museum.

[...] the team [at Art Fraud Insights, LLC] [...] found that the material makeup of the collection did not match that of the original DSS fragments—they appeared to be ancient leather rather than parchment. More importantly, they had found that modern ink had been used to print words on the old material fragments—it had pooled on the old dried leather. The group also found evidence of clay mineral dust similar to that found in the Qumran Caves that had been applied after the inking had been done—evidence of an attempt to cover up the fake materials below. The final verdict: the fragments were not only fake, but had been created for the purpose of deception.

It is still not known who went to such great lengths to create the fake DSS fragments.


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Mojibake Tengu on Thursday March 19 2020, @12:45AM (3 children)

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Thursday March 19 2020, @12:45AM (#972999) Journal

    The War against Gnosticism is going on as usual.
    Monotheists, be damned!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 19 2020, @02:39AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 19 2020, @02:39AM (#973028)

    i don't damn the monotheists, I just explain that I believe in one less God than they do.

    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday March 19 2020, @02:55PM

      by Bot (3902) on Thursday March 19 2020, @02:55PM (#973179) Journal

      It's a funny thing to say, because even in the context of belief it manages to sound more wrong then whatever assertion by theists (induction and counting in the domain of the supernatural, booo). But OK it's your religion not mine.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Thursday March 19 2020, @03:02PM

    by Bot (3902) on Thursday March 19 2020, @03:02PM (#973182) Journal

    The story of the scrolls is IIRC that they had recovered more than the fragments showed up later on, even without fakes. Now, the rest might have been destroyed because it contained different stuff from the bible, or because it contained the same stuff of some less official bible, or even because it contained exactly some parts of the bible, who knows.

    It is also worrying that clay cuneiform tablets were basically dispersed, given away, with the gulf wars, instead of being treated like their worth suggests. Both ISIS and the allies did the same thing down there, destroying artifacts. Hmm.

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