I went into this whole issue as skeptical as

"It's very difficult .Both the book and the movie take note of the objections of those who believe the words "brother of Jesus" were a later addition – the "two hands theory" – and find them wanting.UPI spoke with Vincent Vertolli, assistant curator of Geology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, who examined the phosphate layer inside the box. But he emerged from the process convinced of the authenticity of the ossuary and the inscription."I went into this whole issue as skeptical as anybody, on every count," Jacobovici told UPI. We kind of run with tomb robbers and tomb-robber catchers.
 Jacobovici described this as a contemporary investigative story. This is one of the most tested archaeological artifacts ever..) But how do we know that "Yeshua" was Jesus of Nazareth? Certitude is impossible, but a case can be made for overwhelming probability.""Who is James?" is a historical question the film addresses. The most logical source, he said, is disintegrating bone that released the phosphate, which re-precipitated along the sides and bottom of the ossuary.." Jacobovici sought to take people behind the scenes about whatever issues arose regarding the ossuary, and he set out to weave three strands of the story into one tale."If it was a fake, you wouldn't expect to see this very slow growth which is highlighted by the layering," Vertolli says in the film. to duplicate this wavy pattern.Statistics Prof."
No sign of the use of a modern tool was found. (It doesn't. "Whatever challenge has been thrown at this ossuary, it's passed," the filmmaker said.This led to a press conference in Washington on Oct.And at the end of the film Jacobovici offers a provisional solution to the mystery of the box's origins. "This takes us to the gray underbelly of the antiquities market. 21, which the review held jointly with the Discovery Channel, and a major article by Lemaire in BAR's November-December issue.The physical evidence is even more compelling. And if the patina were forged, it would glow under long-wave ultraviolet light. "Most artifacts in the Smithsonian have undergone far less testing.An electron scanning microscope showed that the patina that develops when limestone interacts with air in a cave environment is the same inside the incised letters of the inscription motor bearings as it is on the surface of the box