FAKE METAL CODICES UPDATE: Today has been pretty quiet so far, but I note that ArtDaily.com has been taken in by that ubiquitous AP article. I would have thought that they at least would have sense enough to pick up the telephone and ask a few real scholars if there was anything to the story. But no.
Background here.
UPDATE: The New York Post has been duped too. Also, an image on one of the codices looks very much as though it was copied from a fake ancient coin. As I suggested early on, these are not just forgeries, they are crude forgeries.
And then there's this, from Remnant of Giants: Latest Discovery: Lead Codices NOT Forged! Definitive Proof. Amusing.
UPDATE: Along the same lines: Do It Yourself: Metal Codex Edition (via James McGrath).
UPDATE: Don't think I've linked yet to Michael Heiser's comments at PaleoBabble on the importance of peer-review publication: Lead Codices: It’s Looking Like a Hoax.