“The discoveries were little short of miraculous: pieces of third-century pottery engraved with one of the first depictions of the crucified Christ, along with Egyptian hieroglyphics, and with Basque words that predated the earliest known written examples of the language by 600 years.” No miracles here, though: there were serious anachronisms in the engravings as well as traces of modern glue. Archaeologist Eliseo Gil and two collaborators were convicted of fraud in a Spanish court. – The Guardian