James Ossuary Lost Tomb of Jesus" are not supported by the overwhelming majority of scholars. James Ossuary The James Ossuary is a 1st-century limestone box that was used for containing the bones of the dead. An Aramaic inscription in the Hebrew alphabet meaning "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" is cut into one side of the box. The inscription is considered significant because, if genuine, it might provide archaeological evidence for Jesus of Nazareth. However, while the ossuary itself is accepted as authentic to the time period, the inscription itself could be a modern forgery. The existence of the ossuary was
Moatfield Ossuary of the Moatfield Ossuary. Eds. R. Williamson and S. Pfeiffer. pp. 19–88. Williamson, R.F., Clish, A., Clark, G.R., and Pfeiffer, S. (2003). "The Archaeology of the Moatfield Ossuary". In Bones of the Ancestors: The Archaeology and Osteobiography of the Moatfield Ossuary. Eds. R. Williamson and S. Pfeiffer. pp. 133–159. Wright, J.V. (1966). The Ontario Iroquois Tradition. Bulletin 210. National Museum of Canada, Ottawa. Moatfield Ossuary The Moatfield Ossuary was accidentally discovered during the expansion of a soccer field located in North York, Ontario in the summer of 1997. Upon identifying both Iroquois artifacts and human remains, a team of archaeologists