[mnehring]

I thought the Ivory Pomegranate was long known to be a fake?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6753063/

—He said the pomegranate was re-examined with a new type of microscope that detected synthetic material in the inscription, between the ivory and the patina.—

[SunkenCiv]

That story is from 2004 — this conference was held to determine whether the rush-to-judgment “report” from that year held water, and it doesn’t’.