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Related: The Museum of the Bible in DC recently admitted their "Dead Sea Scrolls" were forgeries: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/museum-of-t

• sb057 6y ago
  A very important note a few paragraphs in to the National Geographic article: >The new findings don’t cast doubt on the 100,000 real Dead Sea Scroll fragments, most of which lie in the Shrine of the Book, part of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. However, the report’s findings raise grave questions about the “post-2002” Dead Sea Scroll fragments, a group of some 70 snippets of biblical text that entered the antiquities market in the 2000s. Even before the new report, some scholars believed that most to all of the post-2002 fragments were modern fakes.
• memling 6y ago
  > And a longer piece about a forged first-century gospel from the same institution: As a clarification to this comment, the article does not say that the fragment is a forgery; rather it says that the claims of its age were fraudulent, or at least misleading, and that the process by which it was obtained was likely criminal. (If it was stolen, I think it has been returned, since it's in the Egypt Exploration Society collection now.) This is a different matter than the DSS fragments, which NatGeo says were created in modern times.