Tomb of Jesus Found
Breaking News: 335 AD
St. Eleni, the mother of the Emperor Konstandinos, uncovered the tomb of Christ in Jerusalem. In the subsequent 17 centuries, it has continued to be a site of pilgrimage for Christians.
Every once in a while, in the last couple of centuries, some individual or group attempts to profit from claiming to find the "real" tomb. As an example, Charles George Gordon claimed to find the "real" tomb in 1882. Despite the fact that solid archaeological investigation has established it as an unused tomb from the 2nd century, the "Garden Tomb Society" continues to promote it as a tourist site.
Gordon's claim was in keeping with early Evangelical Protestant notions about what the tomb "should" look like (read: doesn't have an Orthodox Church sitting on top of it). Now James Cameron is offering the buying public a claim for a tomb that conforms to modern popular culture's wishes for what the tomb "should" look like. A fine tradition of capitalizing on gullibility.
Meanwhile, the Holy Sepulchre still has the most archaeological merit as the actual tomb, and no site which comes close to rivaling it for conformity to the historical accounts.
St. Eleni, the mother of the Emperor Konstandinos, uncovered the tomb of Christ in Jerusalem. In the subsequent 17 centuries, it has continued to be a site of pilgrimage for Christians.
Every once in a while, in the last couple of centuries, some individual or group attempts to profit from claiming to find the "real" tomb. As an example, Charles George Gordon claimed to find the "real" tomb in 1882. Despite the fact that solid archaeological investigation has established it as an unused tomb from the 2nd century, the "Garden Tomb Society" continues to promote it as a tourist site.
Gordon's claim was in keeping with early Evangelical Protestant notions about what the tomb "should" look like (read: doesn't have an Orthodox Church sitting on top of it). Now James Cameron is offering the buying public a claim for a tomb that conforms to modern popular culture's wishes for what the tomb "should" look like. A fine tradition of capitalizing on gullibility.
Meanwhile, the Holy Sepulchre still has the most archaeological merit as the actual tomb, and no site which comes close to rivaling it for conformity to the historical accounts.