Personally, I believe they will find this another "hoax" - just like the burial box.
#1 - according to one much smarter than I - you cannot carbon date stone
#2 - If the account is true that Muslims have been denying any existence of a "jewish" shrine at this sight - and were supposedly throwing away any evidence left & right - how on earth would this have been discovered by "muslims" and then mysteriously show up on the open market for those of Isreal to "show as evidence"?
I think Isreal's just throwing out some more fake evidence to validate their own claims - I would take this evidence with an entire salt block.
Edited by - pettygrudger on 15 January 2003 13:28:16