The Gospel of Jesus's Wife
Investigative journalism traced the fragment to a named modern owner with a documented history of fabrication, and the scholar who first announced the find publicly accepted it was a forgery within days of the evidence being published — a rare, fast, and complete scholarly reversal.
Karen King's 2012 announcement; Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic (June 2016), tracing the forgery
A small Coptic papyrus fragment announced in 2012 as ancient evidence that Jesus had a wife, and later shown to be a modern forgery.