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.
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Watzman, H. Reality check. Nature 434, 13–15 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/434013a
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