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BohemianBabe · M
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/all-the-museum-of-the-bibles-dead-sea-scrolls-are-fake-1804395
ElwoodBlues · M
@BohemianBabe WOW.
Just to be clear, not all Dead Sea Scroll fragments are counterfeit, just all the ones in the DC "museum" thrown together by Hobby Lobby. And those fake fragments weren't their only problem.
Just to be clear, not all Dead Sea Scroll fragments are counterfeit, just all the ones in the DC "museum" thrown together by Hobby Lobby. And those fake fragments weren't their only problem.
Investigators questioned the provenance of the $30 million collection that Green began amassing in 2009, and found that the company had imported looted artifacts. Hobby Lobby ultimately reached a settlement, returning 5,500 smuggled Iraqi artifacts and paying a $3 million fine. They were forced to return 13 Egyptian Biblical artifacts in 2019.