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This very bright, quite obsessive character coming in contact with this strange world of antiquities, an awful lot of which is based on very shady, dodgy dealing and tomb robbing, so you've got a very interesting and perhaps volatile mix. >> it's an allegation oded golan vigorously denies. >> this is just ridiculous accusation. all what i hold in my hand was a small box of very old tools in which i used to restore antiquities like any other collector. >> for more than a year, golan is held under house arrest while the iaa prepares its case. >> the story switched from being a nice, happy archae...

Documents that they said looked like a forgery workshop. >> in the end, we had dozens of pieces that were supposedly forged. >> the police confiscate boxes full of artifacts for investigation including the james ossuary. >> carefully, carefully! >> from that moment on, a totally different area of inquiry was opened, not just concealing antiquities from the authority, but actually faking them and selling them, which is a criminal act, and so you have this very bright, quite obsessive character coming in contact with this strange world of antiquities, an awful lot of which is based on very shady...

Examine. >> the whole apartment was full of archeological finds. >> they turned up all of these boxes of materials and drawings and computer programs and other documents that they said looked like a forgery workshop. >> in the end, we had dozens of pieces that were supposedly forged. >> narrator: the police confiscate boxes full of artifacts for investigation, including the james ossuary. >> carefully. carefully. >> from that moment on, a totally different area of inquiry was opened, not just concealing antiquities from the authorities but actually faking them and selling them, which is a crim...

Dodgy dealing and tomb robbing. so you've got a very interesting and perhaps volatile mix. >> it's an allegation oded golan vigorously denies. >> this is just a ridiculous accusation. what they hold in my hand was a small box of very old tools in which i use to restore antiquities like any other collector. >> for more than a year golan is held under house arrest while the iaa prepares its case. >> the story switched from being a nice happy archaeological story to being a story about a criminal mastermind trying to change the course of history. >> in december 2004 at the district court of jerus...