The ‘Jesus family tomb’
... Talpiot tomb: the burial place of the family of Jesus? The so-called ‘Jesus family ...
The James the Just ossuary
... bone box of James son of Joseph, brother of Jesus Biblical archaeology seems particularly prone to fraud, especially of ... first century CE was to lay out bodies of the wealthy in family tombs until all the flesh had decayed and subsequently to gather up the ...
Royston Cave: a secret Templar shrine?
... above). Here, the Passion of Christ is depicted, with Jesus on the cross, attended by two people who have been identified as the ... the Invention of the Cross by St Helena, the Holy Family, a major effigy of St Laurence, the Conversion of St Paul, King William ...
The Turin Shroud
... been claimed as the burial shroud of the Jewish prophet Jesus of Nazareth, in whose name the Christian religion was founded. It is thus ... stepmother Jeanne) asking for permission to show the family’s shroud. Presumably, this was because of Bishop Henri de Poitiers’s ...