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Yuval Goren, then a Tel Aviv University professor specializing in ceramic petrography and mineralogy, had studied the ivory pomegranate inscription as a member of a committee appointed by the Israel Museum. The inscription was “unanimously” declared a forgery in a report supposedly coauthored by eight scholars. In fact, the report was almost solely Goren’s work.