First Person: Create a Fake and Win $10,000
BAR’s Create a Fake contest—with a $10,000 prize—will bring the controversial issue of forgery detection from the realm of theory to reality.
Biblical Archaeology Review
Biblical Archaeology Review is the flagship publication of the Biblical Archaeology Society. For more than 40 years it has been making the world of archaeology in the lands of the Bible come alive for the interested layperson. Full of vivid images and articles written by leading scholars, this is a must read for anyone interested in the archaeology of the ancient Near East.
The Mistress of Stratigraphy Had Clay Feet
Spending Your Way through Jewish History
The Three Shekels Receipt and the Fourth Commandment
A Widow’s Plea
Text:
1. YB[R]KK[.]YHWH BS
2. ‘.’DNY.H[S
3. ’YS
4. ‘MY.WNTTH.BYD.’MTK.’T.H
5. NH
Three Shekels Receipt
Text:
1. K’S
2. HW.HMLK.LTT.BYD
3. [Z]KRYHW.KSP TR
4. S
5. S
Ashyahu: He’s Josiah
The “Three Shekels” and “Widow’s Plea” Ostraca: Real or Fake?
“Don’t Lose the Opportunity”
Of the 19 mounds surveyed and numbered by Ruth Amiran in 1953, fewer than half remain today. And even these are endangered by urban growth. It takes only one bulldozer and a 20-minute mistake for another mound to disappear.
Fool The Experts
Object: To make a facsimile of The Jehoash Inscription that will fool the experts.
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