The Talpiot Tomb: The Tomb of Jesus?
In 1980, construction workers clearing ground for an apartment complex in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem struck rock. They had accidentally uncovered the entrance to an ancient burial cave. Inside, archaeologists found ten limestone ossuaries (bone boxes) dating to the first century. The artifacts were cataloged, the bones were reburied according to Jewish religious law, and life went on. But twenty-seven years later, the world’s media exploded. A 2007 documentary produced by James Cameron, The Lost Tomb of Jesus , claimed that this unassuming cave was actually the family tomb of Jesus of Nazareth. They argued that the ossuaries contained the remains of Jesus, his mother Mary, and even a "son" named Judah. If true, this discovery would dismantle the central tenet of Christianity: the Resurrection. If the bones of Jesus are in a box in Jerusalem, the tomb was never empty. However, when the sensationalism fades and the cold, hard facts of archaeology and history...