[Alex Murphy]

A friend of my sister's boyfriend's aunt said that she heard it from a reliable source that this guy overheard......

Dr. Barkay is not a member of the Antiquities Authority committee, but said he had heard the verdict from a committee member.

...the committee will declare that the ossuary itself "is authentic beyond any doubt."...in all likelihood, "the inscription was added to the pre-existing ossuary and therefore the inscription is fake."

However, Dr. Barkay stressed he had not read the committee's full, final report and that he doesn't "regard as a final answer" the information he has heard...."

[HatSteel]

It sounds like someone's questioning the integrity of the committee: He added that the 15-member committee established by the Antiquities Authority "was itself problematic," but refused to comment further.

This won't be the first committee in Israel to declare Jesus a full-fledged problem.

I agree, however, that the authenticity of the ossuary, the shroud of Turin, or any other relic is not significant to the truth of Christianity.

I wonder why different experts come to different conclusions. I was excited once about the shroud of turin until the experts released their report.