Nobody ever expected to find the Dead Sea Scrolls, especially in the place that they were found; the climate isn’t right for preservation of ancient parchment and papyrus. Yet, the amazing discovery ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Washington's $500 million Museum of the Bible held its grand opening in November 2017 there were questions even then about the authenticity of its centerpiece collection of Dead ...

The Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. has confirmed that five of its 16 Dead Sea Scroll fragments are fakes. German materials research institute Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und-prüfung ...

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It’s a scandal of biblical proportions. All 16 Dead Sea Scroll fragments displayed in the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., are fake, the museum announced Friday in a press release. The fake ...

Sixteen forgeries have been discovered so far in the collections of unsuspecting evangelicals. Experts have suspicions about many more. Mark Lanier thinks if you were going to fake a fragment of the ...

Nearly two years after it said fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls were fake, a museum in the U.S. said that none of the fragments are real. “After an exhaustive review of all the imaging and scientific ...

The Museum of the Bible said Monday that five fragments in its collection of Dead Sea Scrolls are fake and will be removed from display. German researchers tested the five fragments and found ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — When Washington's $500 million Museum of the Bible held its grand opening in November 2017, attended by Vice President Mike Pence, there were questions even then about the ...

The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., says five of its most valuable artifacts — once thought to be part of the historic Dead Sea Scrolls — are fake and will not be displayed ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls are an important part of that story, Green says. At nearly 2,000 years old, they testify to the reliability of the Bible, to scripture’s timeless truths. But Arstein Justnes, a ...