In 1980, workers at a Jerusalem construction site accidentally uncovered a cache of bone boxes from early Christian times. When reports about the crypt discovery leaked out 16 years later, the London Sunday Times headlined the story as "The Tomb That Dare Not Speak Its Name." Now the full story will be told. In 2005, documentary filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici obtained permission to break through the apartment floor and reenter the tomb. Part archaeological detective story and part early Christian history, The Jesus Family Tomb is a narrative as riveting as any novel. Newsweek “A slick and suspenseful narrative. . . . Jacobovici is a maverick, a self-made Indiana Jones.”
Foreword James Cameron vVault of the Ages 1The Investigation Begins 45The Lost Tomb 81On Probability, Possibility, and the "Jesus Equation" 113Beyond the Book of Numbers 143A Mary Named Mariamne 159The Twin 175The "Jesus Equation" Revisited 183The Jesus Standard 193Whence Came the Nazarenes 201The Rediscovery 223The Voices of Time 265Gattaca: The DNA Story 279A Crime Lab's Jesus 293Conclusion 325Selected Bibliography 359Acknowledgments 363