Museum of the Bible
Private collection housed in a former cold-storage warehouse, holding scrolls, manuscripts, and one forensically unmasked forgery scandal.
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This guide to the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. opens with a startling verdict on sixteen of the museum's own Dead Sea Scroll fragments, bought between 2009 and 2014, and the investigation the museum itself commissioned to test them. You'll follow fraud investigator Colette Loll and a team of conservators and scientists through eight months of microscope work, X-ray fluorescence, and lab testing in Germany, hunting for what a forger's hand leaves behind that an ancient scribe's never would. A scholar named Kipp Davis had already raised the alarm two years earlier, over a single stray letter.
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