WASHINGTON — Less than a year after it opened, Washington’s Museum of the Bible is admitting that at least some items in its centerpiece collection of Dead Sea Scrolls are fakes.

The embarrassing announcement Monday is the culmination of a technical analysis by a team of German scholars. They concluded that at least five of the museum’s 16 fragments are apparent forgeries.

The authenticity of the collection was being questioned even as the $500 million museum held its grand opening ceremonies in November 2017.

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