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The "Museum of the Bible" in Washington DC has 16 fragments it had on display as fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It turns out that all of them are fakes.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51916849

The museum was the project of the billionaire who owns Hobby Lobby. I can't say I can muster any sympathy for him.


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Isn't he the one who is infamous for buying take dead sea scrolls antiquities after the looting of Iraq's national museum?

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WOW! Gotta go read...


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Fakes.

And

"And this was not the first time the museum's owners have faced controversy. In 2017, Mr Green's company the Hobby Lobby paid a $3m fine (£2.3m) and returned thousands of items after the US Department of Justice accused it of smuggling artifacts from Iraq."


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