Not if the "extra text" was added circa 62 AD.
At that time the limestone was fresh enough to build a box out of and would have supported any amount of writing.
If you look at a photo of the box post-damage, i.e. after the flight to Canada this week, you'll see the vibrations from the flight punched a hole right through the wall of the box. It looks as brittle as an egg shell.
Photos of the inscription LAST week show no sign of damage at all.
If one wants to claim the "brother of Jesus" part was a HOAX, one must postulate WHEN the supposed "hoax" was done... last month? Last YEAR? 20 years ago? 200 years ago? And one must factor in the brittle, eggshell-like condition of the ancient limestone.
Then one must ask to what end and what purpose it would have been done? Money? To corroborate certain passages in the Bible?
How long did the box sit in dusty obscurity before it's recent discovery? Why would a hoaxer forge an inscription but make no effort to live to see the outcome of his handywork? And make no effort to profit from it?
Exactly! That was my point also, see #6.
Odd that the Catholics venerate the Shroud of Turin, an obvious fake and contradiction of the Bible, but are having a hissy-fit over this, which agrees with the Bible.
I'm not too surprised the thing was nearly destroyed. I'm sure it's going to be.
Hank