Dear Editor,
Re “The BBC and the Bible” (en April). I write to express a view on the sad tale of the problems there were in setting up the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC, as outlined by Chris Sinkinson in your April edition.
The wealthy Green family seem to have gone into the project without taking advice from the many scholarly and highly respected Biblical archaeologists both in the USA and around the world. If they had taken such advice, they would have saved huge amounts of money and time, as well as reputational damage, for it was discovered that they had bought forged material from the unscrupulous antiquities market.
