Dealer arrested on suspicion of forging antiquities

Wednesday, July 23, 2003

JERUSALEM -- Police have arrested an Israeli antiquities dealer suspected of creating two forgeries that shook the religious and archaeological world, including a burial box purported to be that of Jesus's brother James.

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