"The owner of the papyrus fragment has been making arrangements for the next round of analysis of the fragment, including testing by independent laboratories with the resources and the specific expertise necessary to produce and interpret reliableresults," Dodgson wrote. "This next phase is likely to take several weeks, if not months."
Strange for a forger to cooperate with those who want to expose his forgery! But then again, as Mark Goodacre and his protege Stephen Carlson have aptly demonstrated time and time again - forgers are just begging to have their crime revealed by the greatest scholars of the age.
dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."