If you like History, Mystery or Science, you should check this out. You can even join in helping give judgment on it as no science is needed to judge it's authenticity.
To bring you up to speed: Years ago an inscription was found which seemed to be the oldest mention of the "name of God": from about 3000 BC, presumably the time of Solomon.
“Belonging to the Tem[ple of the Lor]d [Yahweh], holy to the priests.”
After most experts affirmed it authentic, Israel bought it for a boatload of money. Recently, though, they gave it another look/study and reversed their opinion and called it a forgery!
Now it's big news again. Scholars met in May but came out of it split.
Whether it is a forgery or not has nothing to do with science. All agree that what we have is authentic. It is now down to where a particular break is in the incomplete inscription of the broken object:
Decide for yourself whether the partially preserved letters of the inscription go into the break or stop short of the break, whether the inscription is authentic or a forgery. The scholars were unsuccessful in doing this; at the end of the day, their differences remained. Form your own opinion. Follow the analysis and view these photos yourself:
here.
For the full story on the meeting, see
here.