Click to play videoNew Delhi: Ten years after Titanic, filmmaker James Cameron is uncovering another well-kept secret. His latest venture is ruffling quite a few Christian feathers.
The Lost Tomb of Christ, a documentary produced by Cameron claims that Jesus was never resurrected, but his bones were buried in caskets with the rest of his family in Jerusalem.
"I have never doubted that there was a historical Jesus, that walked the earth two thousand years ago, but the simple fact is that there has never been a shred of physical and archaeological evidence to support that fact until right now,” says Cameron.
The documentary claims that the tomb discovered in 1980 bears names including Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
And one of the caskets also bears the title, ‘Judah, son of Jesus’, hinting that Jesus may have had a son.
Even though the caskets and the inscriptions were unveiled at a conference, several Biblical experts and anthropologists are still not convinced of their authenticity because names including Mariam, Joseph and Jesus were very common during that period.
“These were very, very common names, so we see these names which occur again and again in the archaeological record. What they have done here, is they have simply tried, in a very, very I think dishonest way, to try to go and con the public into believing that this is the tomb of Jesus or Jesus' family. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Jesus,” says Biblical anthropologist, Prof Joe Zias.
Considering what the fictitious Da Vinci Code did during it's release, this definitely is not the last we have heard of this documentary which debuts on the international Discovery channel in early March.
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