Museum worth $500mn says 5 of its Dead Sea Scrolls are fake
US-based Museum of the Bible worth $500 million has removed five of its artefacts, thought to be part of the Dead Sea Scrolls, after tests suggested they're fake. Researchers in Germany tested five of the museumâs 16 fragments saying they showed âcharacteristics inconsistent with ancient originâ. The scrolls, composed of over 100,000 fragments, were discovered by Bedouin shepherds in 1940s. 