A Spanish archaeologist and his team have been given prison sentences, the main protagonist of the heist story lauded two years in prion and entaild with €12,490 (over $14,000) fine for forgery.
Eliseo Gil, the former director of excavations at Roman archaeological site Iruña-Veleia situated in the Basque area in Spain, was given time in the Spanish jail for having “manipulated” writings considered historical at the time, either by himself or “through third persons,” according to sentencing documents released by the court and Spanish media.
The whole fakery dates back to for than 15 years ago, as the renowned professor announced to the academic society that he found clay pieces near Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain’s Basque Country.point 276 |
According to the professional analysis supposedly carried out by Gil, the dates should go back to 3rd Century AD, which amazingly came out in heaps of hieroglyphic writings from Egypt, signs of early Christianity with the remarkable icon of crucifixion discovered alongside.point 233 |
Also, the most powerful discovery was the fact that there were written records of the Basque language, the earliest of its kind if the findings were known to be verifiable and really did date back to 3rd Century.point 175 | 1
Two years later, a multidisciplinary committee of linguistics, ancient history, archaeology, chemistry and philology experts deemed the discovery to be a fake, the Reuters news agency reported.point 449 |
“Experts who studied the pieces found inconsistencies such as the absence of syntax, modern spellings of words, and names and phrases inconsistent with the supposed time period”, El Pais previously noted.point 186 | According to the newspaper, experts in philology and ancient history had found evidences of modern tampering with the doubtful findings from the artifacts: the appearance of Latin words with more modern features, such as the use of the letter J in Jupiter in place of the Latin spelling, “Iupiter,” or “Octavian Augustus” to refer to Emperor Augustus.point 505 | 1
In a statement seen on an archived version of the excavation team’s website, the team defended their stances, claiming innocence: “which they said consisted of “a voluminous set of graffiti — inscriptions and engraved graffiti on various media — of an exceptional character from the texts and themes represented.point 403 |
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In February, Gil maintained his innocence in statements made to the press.point 77 | The next day, he was sentenced to two years, three months and 23 days in prison.point 144 | 1
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