Museum: Solomon's Temple Relic a Forgery
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The Israel Museum announced Friday that one of its most prized possessions, an ivory pomegranate touted as the only existing relic from Solomon's Temple, is a forgery.
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Just because the icon Pope John Paul II sent to the Russian Orthodox Church is an 18th-century copy does not mean it is a fake. &quot;In the West, people think of a &#39;real&#39; original
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An 84-year-old man whose family forged statues and paintings that were sold to museums including the Art Institute of Chicago received a two-year suspended sentence in London on Monday, The Associated Press reported. The man, George Greenhalgh, right; his wife, Olive, 83; and their son, Shaun, 46, pleaded guilty in 2002 to laundering money from the sale of forged artworks. In November a sentence of more than four years was imposed on Shaun, described by the authorities as the creator of fakes that supposedly ranged across the millennia, from gold and silver Roman and Anglo-Saxon works to sculptures attributed to Paul Gauguin and Henry Moore. Mrs. Greenhalgh received a one-year sentence. The police said the parents handled most of the sales. Detective Sgt. Vernon Rapley, chief of Scotland Yardâs art and antiques unit, said there was little doubt that some of the familyâs forgeries were still circulating in the art world.
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A mysterious carved code at a manor house, which has defied understanding for hundreds of years, is thought to be a cryptic message from an 18th century Christian sect, experts said.
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BamiyanÃÂs Buddhist relics are once again the focus of debate: Is it possible to restore the great Buddhas?
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Archeologists working near Stonehenge in England have discovered an ancient religious complex containing a treasure trove of artifacts that may finally illuminate the lives and religious practices of the people ...Comment
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A Bulgarian archaeologist has unearthed an ancient gold mask and a ring featuring an "Olympic" rower in what he called an unrivalled find in the study of classical antiquity.
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A fine arts gallery and federal prosecutors have reached an agreement to return a 17th-century carved altar piece to a rural Peruvian village church from where it was allegedly stolen.
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BamiyanÂs Buddhist relics are again the focus of debate: Is it possible to restore the great Buddhas?
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Israeli prosecutors charged four antiquities dealers on Wednesday with forging a slew of biblical artifacts including a &quot;Jesus box&quot; that had been claimed as proof of Christianity&#39;s origins.
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A feud flares over an ancient skull that may or may not have belonged to a new species of human
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A Gauguin sculpture of a faun hailed as one of the most treasured recent acquisitions of the Art Institute of Chicago was yesterday unmasked as a fake - from Bolton
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Gold and other 17th century artifacts treasure salvagers say they recovered from a shipwrecked Spanish galleon off Key West were brought ashore Thursday. Some estimate the findings could be worth more than $1 million.
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By Sean Robinson, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 15--For a few hours Wednesday, the Washington State History Museum unwittingly lent its name to an anonymous phishmonger.
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Beni archeologici recuperati in Veneto, denunciato un uomo
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An artifact stolen from an Egyptian temple in 1990 and held by Christie's auction house in New York for the last two years arrived in Egypt on Friday, an airport official said.
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JERUSALEM -- Four Israeli antiquities collectors and dealers were indicted yesterday on charges that they ran a sophisticated forgery ring that spanned the globe and produced a treasure trove of fake Bible-era artifacts, including some that were hailed as major archeological finds.