King Solomon's Tablet Of Stone [5/5]

"The authenticity of many Holy Land artefacts is thrown into doubt"

In 2001, a clandestine meeting of leading Israeli archaeologists are shown a remarkable artefact. It's a stone tablet, apparently from 1,000BC. The writing on its face

describes repairs to the temple of King Solomon. It is the first archaeological evidence ever found of this legendary building.

The relic caused a sensation. But this was only just the start.

For authentification, the tablet was taken to the Geological Survey of Israel. Here, after a battery of tests, including radiocarbon dating, scientists officially pronounced

the stone to be genuine. The tests even revealed microscopic particles of gold in the outer layer of stone. These were apparently the result of the tablet surviving the fire

which, according to the bible, destroyed the temple when the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem in 586BC.

The stone tablet was offered for sale to the Israel Museum, home to many of Israel's greatest treasures. Rumours suggested the asking price was as high as $10million.

But the museum needed to know where the stone had come from. Even its owner was a mystery. To make matters more complex, the stone itself had disappeared again. The Israeli

Antiquities Authority wanted answers. A nine month search for the mysterious stranger who had first appeared with the stone eventually led them to a private detective who had

been hired by a well known antiquities collector, Oded Golan.



Golan insisted he too was just a front man for another collector. But the authorities were suspicious. He was known to be the owner of the James Ossuary, another extraordinary

artefact which had appeared a couple of years earlier. This was a burial box with an inscription linking it to Jesus' brother.

The authorities raided Golan's apartment and recovered both the ossuary and the elusive stone. It was time to establish once and for all if both were genuine. So they set up a

committee of linguists and scientists to examine them.



Looking at the stone, several linguists said 'fake'. Some of the Hebrew, they claimed, was not ancient. Other experts claimed that so little is known of ancient Hebrew that

it's impossible to be sure.

The committee turned to geology. Dr Yuval Goren, a geo-archaeologist and head of the Archaeological Institute at Tel-Aviv University, soon found evidence that a team of

sophisticated forgers had led the earlier experts astray.
The patina on the stone had in fact been manufactured artificially
The charcoal particles which produced the convincing radiocarbon date had been added by hand
The gold fragments hinting at an ancient fire were a clever final addition
The authorities presented their conclusions. They announced that the stone tablet, and the James Ossuary, were elaborate fakes.



But who was producing these fakes and how? Dr Goren decided to piece together how the stone tablet had been made. He tracked the origin of the stone itself - apparently a

building block taken from a Crusader castle. It was even possible to work out how the fake patina had been manufactured and the ingredients used. What was clear was the team of

forgers included experts in a range of disciplines.

When the police took Oded Golan into custody and searched his apartment they discovered a workshop with a range of tools, materials, and half finished 'antiquities'. This was

evidence for an operation of a scale far greater than they had suspected.

Investigators have established that collectors around the world have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for artefacts that came through Oded Golan's associates. Dozens of

these items have now been examined by Dr Goren, and all have been revealed to be forgeries. Police now suspect that artefacts made by the same team of forgers have found their

way into leading museums around the world.

Some archaeologists have now concluded that everything that came to market in the last 20 years without clear provenance should be considered a fake. Many of these objects,

like the stone tablet which started the investigation, were cynically playing on the desire of many of the collectors to see the bible confirmed as history. For those in search

of the temple of Solomon - their goal is as far away as ever.

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[eddyg2020]

Such a great documentary.......exposes good information, that religious fanatics need to know, in order to help them become normal and realistic

[privatepersonalc]

OOOOOOps Busted!

[68noraa]

Ha ha ha... GOD's chosen people! If they can change the Torah with their hands why can't they fake "Solomon's Tablet"?

[DontCloudMe]

Don't flatter yourselves. The true believers don't need any confirmation at all. Only the faithless trip all over themselves for proof/artifacts.

[Development2112]

Either way, we know, just looks at nature, space, life, even if this was a forgery perhaps some day scientists will study a true artifact from Solomon's temple.

[NolanGoldfain]

People mustn't misunderstand the people of the book.Our religion is based on the fact that God spoke with our nation at mount sinai.This is why the jews accetped Moses prophecy,because God gave prophecy to every Jew at mount sinai.The Jews never requred archaelogical proof of this,and no religious jew was excited when this tablet was discovered

[akkafietje]

After the first part of video 1, I could not believe this was made by the atheistic BBC.

Of course after seeing the rest, the reason was clear why they made it.

After 3000 years of Judaism without plaques, do they now really presume that a recent false inscripted stone will change their faith ?

[jhorne18]

eddyg2020 is so correct. So revealing is the mentality of the true believer. They'll jump at anything to confirm their fantasy ideology. As to the antiquities, themselves, there needs to be an antiquities law, where no private collectors can acquire National treasures. In some countries, if you are caught in possession of antiquities, you are promptly arrested.

[halfasheep]

Surely Jesus/Horus would inform his faithful of these forgeries!!!!!.

[thoostorm4]

@eddyg2020 remember when things go down the drain i will be here to cheer the downfall of faggot footballplaying u c l a rascist faggotsdracula and vampires are a myth twisted fuck

[thoostorm4]

@eddyg2020 remember when things go down the drain i will be here to cheer the downfall of faggot footballplaying u c l a rascist faggots

[eddyg2020]

@eddyg2020 dude.......what are u talking about...i dont believe in the bible...lol i think you misunderstood my comment....NOW YOU ARE NOT COOL....you a dork...lol...jk.......i agree with your bible on the cover only comment....very true!