Eliseo Gil, former excavation manager Rome archaeological site Iruña-Veleia was sentenced to prison, and according to the criminal documents seen by CNN, he was fined for either his own or historically accepted “manipulated” writings at the time.

In 2005 and 2006, Gil announced that his team found pieces of clay on the site near the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz. In the Basque Country of Spain. Said. The works are dated to the third century AD and include Egyptian hieroglyphic references, crucifixion representations and signs of the Basque language, the Spanish newspaper. El Pais reported.

However, two years later, a multidisciplinary linguistic committee, experts in ancient history, archeology, chemistry and philology accepted the discovery as a fake, Reuters news agency It was reported.

According to the newspaper, experts of philology and ancient history questioned the appearance of Latin words with more modern features, such as the use of the letter J in Latin, instead of “Iupiter” or “Octavian Augustus” in Jupiter. To Emperor Augustus.

At first, Gil and his team defended their controversial findings from the “great excitement” they caused.

In a statement seen in an inactive archived version of the excavation team’s website, Gil and his team said, “A voluminous set of graffiti – inscriptions and engraved graffiti in various media – is an extraordinary character from the represented texts and themes.”

In February, Gil continued his innocence in statements to the press.

On Wednesday, a court president in Vitoria-Gasteiz convicted Gil for fraud and fraud and sentenced him to two years, three months and 23 days in prison.