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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/museum-of-the-bible-dead-sea-scrolls-forgeries/

'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries

Months of testing confirm earlier suspicions that the fragments were made in modern times. What happens next?


WASHINGTON, D.C.On the fourth floor of the Museum of the Bible, a sweeping permanent exhibit tells the story of how the ancient scripture became the world’s most popular book. A warmly lit sanctum at the exhibit’s heart reveals some of the museum’s most prized possessions: fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient texts that include the oldest known surviving copies of the Hebrew Bible.

But now, the Washington, D.C. museum has confirmed a bitter truth about the fragments’ authenticity. On Friday, independent researchers funded by the Museum of the Bible announced that all 16 of the museum’s Dead Sea Scroll fragments are modern forgeries that duped outside collectors, the museum’s founder, and some of the world’s leading biblical scholars. Officials unveiled the findings at an academic conference hosted by the museum.

“The Museum of the Bible is trying to be as transparent as possible,” says CEO Harry Hargrave. “We’re victims—we’re victims of misrepresentation, we’re victims of fraud.”

In a report spanning more than 200 pages, a team of researchers led by art fraud investigator Colette Loll found that while the pieces are probably made of ancient leather, they were inked in modern times and modified to resemble real Dead Sea Scrolls. “These fragments were manipulated with the intent to deceive,” Loll says.

The new findings don’t cast doubt on the 100,000 real Dead Sea Scroll fragments, most of which lie in the Shrine of the Book, part of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. However, the report’s findings raise grave questions about the “post-2002” Dead Sea Scroll fragments, a group of some 70 snippets of biblical text that entered the antiquities market in the 2000s. Even before the new report, some scholars believed that most to all of the post-2002 fragments were modern fakes.

“Once one or two of the fragments were fake, you know all of them probably are, because they come from the same sources, and they look basically the same,” says Årstein Justnes, a researcher at Norway’s University of Agder whose Lying Pen of Scribes project tracks the post-2002 fragments.

Since its 2017 opening, the Museum of the Bible has funded research into the pieces and sent off five fragments to Germany’s Federal Institute for Materials Research for testing. In late 2018, the museum announced the results to the world: All five tested fragments were probably modern forgeries.

But what of the other 11 fragments? And how had the forgers managed to fool the world’s leading Dead Sea Scroll scholars and the Museum of the Bible?

“It really was—and still is—an interesting kind of detective story,” says Jeffrey Kloha, the Museum of the Bible’s chief curatorial officer. “We really hope this is helpful to other institutions and researchers, because we think this provides a good foundation for looking at other pieces, even if it raises other questions.”

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Delovi dosijea Mustafe Golubića, iz fonda BdS Istorijskog arhiva Beograda (IAB-BdS G-714) pic.twitter.com/CQiyJHIzmt

— Istorijski arhiv Beograda (@IA_Beograda) March 19, 2020

"Dok se to dešavalo, razboli se Vratko, najistaknutiji među vojvodama, pa se vosjka ovde zadrža u logoru jedanaest dana. Kada se on oporavi, onda bolest zahvati Olivera, pa je potrebno isto toliko ako ne i više ostati. Kada je i njemu bilo bolje, razboleše se i ostali arhonti i skoro čitava vojska. Pretovarivši se medovinom i mesom, kojima ovaj kraj veoma obiluje i zatim izmuljavši grožđe i slatkim moštom se odmah prepijajući, zapadoše u vatru i iznemoglost i bolešću ophrvani umirahu. I nemali broj visokih starešina umre i od vojske više od hiljadu pet stotina ljudi. Od Romeja koji su pratili cara (sc. Jovana Kantakuzina) ni jedan nije umro, niti se razboleo."

Since we can't leave our houses, I thought I'd make a short thread on some of the houses Hannah Arendt lived in.

Hannah Arendt was born in Linden, Hannover Germany on October 14, 1906. This was her first home, Lindener Marktplatz 2. pic.twitter.com/9OFUAyLm1V

— Samantha Rose Hill (@Samantharhill) March 24, 2020