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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Sometimes, yes. But there are two problems here:
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I would not find these tests convincing, since I suspect that the forgers used ancient materials in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Here is one of the wrinkles in this story: the vast majority of these forgeries are not very good. One of the deeply seeded problems in our discipline is the extremely low threshold of acceptance for antiquities. The argument made for the Dead Sea Scrolls for decades has been that we can accept as authentic anything that can be connected directly or indirectly to the Kando family of antiquities dealers. Such is nonsense, and the procedures for authenticating antiquities are something that I and my colleagues are actively working to change.
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I didnt realize so many werent even on ancient materials.
When I mean "well done" I meant they had to find ancient materials to inscribe. So the material would pass the carbon dating test, but is still an obvious forgery.