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Nature 434, 13-15 (3 March 2005) | doi:10.1038/434013a; Published online 2 March 2005
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Antiquities fraud: Reality check
Haim Watzman1
- Haim Watzman is a freelance writer in Jerusalem.
Abstract
They were highly prized artefacts with inscriptions that dated back to biblical times. The only problem was they were fake. Haim Watzman unearths the authentication work that has rocked Israel's archaeology community.
At the end of December, five alleged members of an antiquities forgery ring were indicted in Jerusalem's district court. At the same time, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem removed from view one of its most prized pieces: an ivory pomegranate bearing an inscription hinting that it had been used by priests in Solomon's Temple, the holiest site of the Israelite nation in the biblical period.
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