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Oded Golan ((ヘブライ語:עודד גולן)) (b. 1951 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli engineer and artifact collector, who was placed on trial for forgery of antiquities. Some of the artifacts he has uncovered have produced great excitement in religious and archaeological circles, and have caused allegations of fraud and forgery. He was accused of faking the James Ossuary and other items in order to trap gullible collectors. In December 2004, he was indicted with four other defendants and accused of being at the center of an international antiquities forgery ring.〔 Much interest was generated by this case, with a book written on the subject. In 2012, he was acquitted of these charges. ==Background== The son of an engineer and a microbiologist, Golan served in the Israel Defense Forces before studying engineering at Technion. He later went on to work in a variety of high-technology roles, before founding his own informatics company. Golan also has a keen interest in archeology and antiquities. According to the BBC, when the police took Oded Golan into custody and searched his apartment they discovered a workshop with a range of tools, materials, and half finished 'antiquities'. This was evidence for an operation of a scale far greater than they had suspected. Investigators have established that collectors around the world have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for artefacts that came through Oded Golan's associates. Dozens of these items were examined. Police then suspect that artefacts made by the same team of forgers have found their way into leading museums around the world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC - Science & Nature - Horizon )〕 The documentary film ''The History Merchants'' covered investigations into Golan and the provenance of his finds. The film alleged Golan (working with a team of people, including an expert in ancient semitic languages and an artisan) had produced a number of forged artifacts for sale on the religious antiquities market. Oded Golan describes the film as "rumor", saying it contained no real evidence and was part of a "media circus". He claims the IAA and police investigation was mishandled and persecutory. Professor Wolfgang Krumbein, an international expert in the field of ancient patina stated in his report that the tools the IAA used to examine the artifacts were unfit to make such allegations and that tests in a modern lab have proven the authenticity of at least the James Ossuary. In 2004, "Horizon" aired ''King Solomon's Tablet of Stone'' on the BBC. This program aired allegations of a forgery and fraudulent activity of Golan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=King Solomon's Tablet of Stone )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oded Golan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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