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The tory of a tunning new di covery that provide the fir t phy ical evidence of Chri tian in Jeru alem during the time of Je u and hi apo tle . In 2010, u ing a pecialized robotic camera, author Tabor and Jacobovici, working with archaeologi t , geologi t , and foren ic anthropologi t , explored a previou ly unexcavated tomb in Jeru alem from around the time of Je u . They made a remarkable di covery. The tomb contained everal o uarie , or bone boxe , two of which were carved with an iconic image and a Greek in cription. Taken together, the image and the in cription con titute the earlie t archaeological evidence of faith in Je u re urrection. Since the newly di covered o uarie can be reliably dated to before 70 AD, when Jeru alem wa de troyed by the Roman , they al o provide the fir t evidence in Jeru alem of the people who would later be called Chri tian . In fact, it i po ible, maybe even likely, that whoever wa buried in thi tomb knew Je u and heard him preach. The newly examined tomb i only 200 feet away from the o-called Je u Family Tomb. Thi controver ial tomb, excavated in 1980 and recently brought to international attention, contained o uarie in cribed with name a ociated with Je u and hi immediate family. Critic di mi ed the ynchronicity of name a mere coincidence. But the new di covery increa e the likelihood that the Je u Family Tomb i , indeed, the real tomb of Je u of Nazareth. Tabor and Jacobovici di cu the evidence in upport of thi interpretation and de cribe how both tomb appear to have been part of the property of a wealthy individual, po ibly Jo eph of Arimathea, the man who, according to the go pel , buried Je u . The Je u Di covery explain how the recent find i revolutionizing our under tanding of the earlie t year of Chri tianity. Tabor and Jacobovici di cu what the concept of re urrection meant to the fir t follower of Je u , particularly how it differed from the common under tanding of the term today. Becau e the new archaeological di covery predate all other Chri tian document , including the go pel , it offer a dramatic witne to what the people who knew Je u believed. There i no doubt that thi i one of the mo t important archaeological di coverie ever made. The Je u Di covery i the fir thand account of how it happened and what it mean .
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