November 18, 2005
Police Investigate Israeli Archaeologist
An archaeologist at Bar-Ilan University is under investigation by the Israeli police in the wake of allegations that he illegally possessed a fragment of an ancient scroll.
The archaeologist, Hanan Eshel, says he acted in good faith to rescue a valuable find that antiquities dealers were seeking to sell.
He was questioned for about two hours on November 1 and then released.
Mr. Eshel says he learned about the fragment in August 2004, when a Bedouin antiquities dealer
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