[Desdemona]

Antiquities script experts and all of us Freeper Catholics believe the inscription was faked.

Actually, common sense and a fair amount of experience around archival and rare artifacts as well as antiques tells me it's probably faked. The box itself is supposed to be from the period, it's the second part of the inscription that's in question. Market value of any object increases by attributing it to a famous person. That's what I think happened. It happens in the antique world all the time. Faith didn't come into conclusion at all.

[Delbert]

Well in all of these threads since this was first posted last week, there were several Freepers of multiple Christian denominations that were happy and excited that even though we dont need archaeology to support our faith that it is indeed a blessing when it does happen. Wow a possible historical real tangible link to Jesus.

Then there was another camp that immediately set out to prove that this ossuary was a forgery and a fake. Interesting how all of those people were either atheists or catholics.

[RightWhale]

Market value of any object increases by attributing it to a famous person.

Certain people get on my case for telling what I see, but it looks like the text was carved into the stone a long time after the stone was first cut. The text is fresh and clean, the surface looks worn or eroded.