Jodi Magness does an excellent job refuting claims made in the recent James Cameron documentary about the discovery of the tomb of Jesus. I recommend reading the whole article, but just in case you don't have the time, here's her conclusion:
To conclude, the identification of the Talpiyot tomb as the tomb of Jesus and his family contradicts the canonical Gospel accounts of the death and burial of Jesus and the earliest Christian traditions about Jesus. This
claim is also inconsistent with all of the available information — historical and archaeological — about how Jews in the time of Jesus buried their dead, and specifically the evidence we have about poor, non-Judean families like that of Jesus. It is a sensationalistic claim without any scientific basis or support.
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