Fraud rocks Israel

This is a curious tale from Eric Silver in The Independent. Four Israeli antiquities dealers and collecters have been arrested in Israel for forging inscriptions on genuine antiquities to increase their value. They even coated the artefacts with a special paint to imitate the patina that would accumulate over thousands of years. Apparently, they had some of the world's leading experts fooled. Furthermore, they had some people accepting them as proof of biblical stories such as about Solomon's temple and the existence of Jesus. This is like Joan Peters and Alan Dershowitz, only with a shovel and some paint.