article_snippet.sent: An Israeli geologist claims geologist has ‘confirmed’ the existence and authenticity of a tomb belonging to Jesus and Jesus son in Jerusalem.
article_snippet.sent: After extensive chemical tests, Dr Arye Shimron says Dr Arye Shimron has linked the James Ossuary – a 1st-century chalk box that some believe hold the bones of Jesus brother – to the long disputed
article_snippet.sent: After running 150 chemical tests, an expert claims to have linked the James Ossuary (pictured)
article_snippet.sent: Bones were discovered inside ossuaries, including one that bore the inscription, ‘Jesus, son of Joseph'.
article_snippet.sent: Probing this connection, Dr Shimron and documentary maker Simcha Jacobovici looked closer at the ossuaries, including the James Ossuary, which is held by a private owner and bears the inscription,
article_snippet.sent: The existence of The James Ossuary was announced in 2002, but The existence of the ossuary authenticity was immediately challenged.
article_snippet.sent: a private owner was charged with forging part of the inscription and while a private owner was found innocent seven years later, a private owner said the acquittal 'does not mean that the inscription The James Ossuary is authentic or that The James Ossuary was written 2,000 years ago'.
article_snippet.sent: Now, Dr Shimron claims the chemical signature on the ‘crust’ of the box matches that of a tomb in Jerusalem known as the ‘Jesus Family tomb’ where other ossuaries were found bearing the names of Jesus and Mary as well as ‘Judah, son of Jesus’.
article_snippet.sent: The owner of The James Ossuary, Oded Golan, was accused of forging the inscription shortly after the inscription discovery by an academic from the Sorbonne in Paris, but Dr Shimron was later found innocent.
article_snippet.sent: Recently Dr Shimron Dr Shimron gained access to The James Ossuary and scraped beneath the box's patina, the layer that forms on metal over time.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Shimron ran around 150 tests on the chemistry of samples from 25 different ossuaries – 15 of which were from unrelated tombs – and found that traces of magnesium, iron and silicon from The James Ossuary matched the chemical signature of Talpiot tomb.
article_snippet.sent: ‘This find illustrates that the James Ossuary is authentic and the Jesus Family tomb indeed belongs to the family of Jesus.
article_snippet.sent: I think I’ve got really powerful, virtually unequivocal evidence that the James Ossuary spent most of the James Ossuary lifetime, or death time, in the Talpiot Tomb.
article_snippet.sent: The James Ossuary is kept in a secret location by The James Ossuary owner, who lives in Tel Aviv.
highlights_snippet.sent: Geologist ran 150 chemical tests on ossuaries and 'Jesus Family tomb'
  Claims chemical signature proves James Ossuary was at Jerusalem site .
  