Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at least partly fake, museum admits

The article I am summarizing is “Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at least partly fake, museum admits” from the CBC news website. When Washington Museum of the Bible held its grand opening in November 2017, there were suspicions about the authenticity of its centrepiece collection of Dead Sea Scrolls. A team of German Scholars discovered through technical analysis that at least 5 of the museum’s 16 scroll fragments are supposed forgeries. This discovery has grave implications for Christian individuals and institutions that paid large amounts of money for an apparent archaeological fraud. The scrolls…