By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Old Leather On Friday, independent researchers revealed that every one of the 16 Dead Sea Scroll fragments that constitute the showstopping exhibit at the Museum of the Bible are fakes, with the fragments believed to be modern forgeries. The researchers, who were funded by the Museum to vet the provenance of the files, published a 200-page report indicating that the fragments are unrelated to the 100,000 real Dead Sea Scroll fragments, which are mostly in Israel. Basically, it wasn’t until the 1970s that UNESCO and Israel restricted the sales of the scrolls, and the only ones on the open market were sold by antiquities dealers before then. The fragments are from a batch that showed up on the open market in 2002, so it’s
Numlock News: March 16, 2020 • Butterflies, Forgeries, Luxuries
That story about the giraffes just depressed me. Human beings absolutely suck as stewards of the planet.