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October 7, 2014

Is the Rarest Artifact from King Solomon’s Temple Really a Forgery?

For many years, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has maintained that an ivory pomegranate with a Hebrew inscription is a forgery, while other scholars have insisted that it is an authentic relic of the First Temple. Hershel Shanks, founder and editor of Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR), has long supported those who believe in its authenticity, but now he has his doubts. The argument, he explains, rests on a single Hebrew letter:

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October 7, 2014

  1. Reconstructing a 17th-Century Wooden Synagogue

  2. The End of the Abbas Era and Netanyahu’s Pivot to the Middle East

  3. Is the Rarest Artifact from King Solomon’s Temple Really a Forgery?

  4. A Tale of Yom Kippur in Old Jerusalem

  5. Split Up by the Holocaust, Top Collection of Yiddish Works Will Reunite Digitally