TIL in 2023, Israel announced an amazing archaeological discovery, only to announce a few days later that it was created by a scholar showing students what it would have looked like if it existed.
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Israel says inscription in Persian pottery shard inauthentic
https://apnews.com/article/israel-fake-ancient-inscription-darius-persian-empire-168cb72009a67859238e4e468108f5ab
Israel has acknowledged that an inscription in clay found in the country’s south bearing the name of Darius the Great, ruler of the ancient Persian Empire, was not authentic.