Tag: Archaeological Fraud

Journalist Nina Burleigh went to Israel to investigate a Biblical archaeology forgery case and encountered a curious commercial subculture where science is being harnessed to provide “proof” for believers, and where archaeology and politics are as intertwined as nesting snakes. Her book, Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land, was described by Time as “Sam Spade in the Holy Land,” and by the Wall Street Journal as a “lively account ...  also a springboard for her larger meditation on the field of biblical archaeology.”