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Exclusive: 'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries
(www.nationalgeographic.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2024
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This article came out in March of 2020
I wonder if anything else was going on in March of that year that might have caused it to slip people’s notice? Probably not.
cough cough Nah, nothing cough wheeeeeeeze going on back then
uhhh wouldn't a lockdown make more people binge read news?
I wasn’t aware of this, and it’s a good article explaining how the forgers created these snippets, and why so many people fell for this. Thanks OP, it’s really interesting!
Plot twist - it's a forgery too
News reposts should include (Year) at the end of the title.