LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY ordos45)

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/29/israel.antiquities.ap/index.html

Basically the article sums up how forgeries are being made, an example being the Jesus brother of James ossuary. (The owner has been arrested.) One person that is interviewed by the AP in the article says that forgers were "trying to change history". And goes on to say they saw a market in exploiting people's faiths by giving them the physical evidence to reaffirm it.