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A stone box that may be the oldest evidence of the life of Jesus has been declared a fake by archaeologists. The ossuary is the kind that was used by Jewish families to bury the bones of relatives in the first century AD. An inscription on the side of the box, written in Aramaic, reads: “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.”

According to archaeologists at Israel’s Antiquities Authority, “The inscription appears new, written in modernity by someone attempting to reproduce ancient written characters. The inscriptions, possibly inscribed in two separate stages, are not authentic.”
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The White House has removed references to problems caused by global warming from next week’s Environmental Protection Agency report on the state of the environment. The report was commissioned in 2001 by EPA head Christie Whitman, who is leaving her federal job this month. The original climate information, along with the changes ordered by the White House, were slipped to the New York Times by a former EPA official. Two other agency officials say the documents are authentic.
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Brandon Griggs writes in the Salt Lake Tribune that a wave of cat mutilations is going on there. Our Dreamland science reporter, Linda Moulton Howe, has reported on similar mutilations from all over the country, yet this story, like most of the others we’ve read, gives no indication of the scope of the mystery.

Around a year ago, Katy Bonacci saw what she thought was a pile of rags lying in the grass across the street. When she got closer, she realized it was her cat George, with a hole in his left side. His intestines lay on the curb. “I’ll never forget that image,” She says. “It’s just creepy. I haven’t had a good night’s sleep since.”
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Mars is going to make its closest approach to Earth in over 70,000 years this summer, and Mars oppositions have usually been periods of peak UFO activity in the past. Author Jacques Vallee was the one who discovered the Mars cycle. In his book, “Challenge to Science The UFO Enigma,” he presented a graph of UFO waves from 1947 to 1962 that showed dramatic increases in sightings during periods when Mars was close to the Earth, and there has been an increase in recent months. Should we get ready for contact? Find out how to do it on this week’s Dreamland.
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