The bone box of James son of Joseph, brother of Jesus Biblical
archaeology seems particularly prone to fraud, especially of
fraudulent artefacts that confirm the religious beliefs of the
faithful. One of the greatest stumbling-blocks that Christians
have always experienced is that while they are proud to base
their religion on books that they claim to be thoroughly
historical in nature, many events of the New Testament –
especially those of the Gospels – have no confirmation outside
the Bible. Roman records are silent about many of the events and
personages in stories familiar to all Christians. Forgeries
purporting to confirm some of these details have been around
since the first development of the religion and continue to be
produced today. The “discovery” of the ossuary On 21 October
2002, Hershel Shanks, editor of The Biblical Archaeology Review,
announced at a press conference that an amazing discovery had
been made in Israel: a contemporary inscription confirming the
existence Jesus of Nazareth and his