. . . and, The Toronto Star's Faith-and-Ethics Reporter, Stuart Laidlaw, provides interested parties with the low-down on the up-swing in dealing with real fakes (and, no, I won't make a snark-remark about carbon dating since diamonds remain a dame's best end).
"If you're going to fake a Biblical antiquity, keep it simple . . . And don't mention Jesus . . . These and other lessons can be gleaned from Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed, and Forgery in the Holy Land (Harper Collins), a new book about the James Ossuary, once purported to have held the bones of Jesus's brother and now exposed as a fake, unveiled to the world six years ago this week at The Royal Ontario Museum [in Toronto, Canada]."
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