text: Many dispute the modern scientific tests that have proven it to be a medieval fabrication , and crowds of faithful and merely curious still visit its black marble chapel , a masterpiece of Guarini 's High Baroque , with its cone-shaped , six-tiered dome formed by a web of intersecting arches that rise to a 12-pointed star .
  
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  Five scientists were involved in the tests which proved that it was a medieval fabrication .