Experts question testing DNA found in tomb

Conclusions based on DNA testing underpin an explosive book claiming to identify the mortal remains of Jesus of Nazareth.

Simcha Jacobovici, director, producer and writer of the documentary “The Lost Tomb of Jesus,” obtained bone and tissue samples from ossuaries held by the Israeli Antiquities Authority bearing the names Jesus and Mary. The bone boxes were pulled from a family tomb cut into bedrock in Talpiot, Jerusalem. The odds those names and others associated with the Jesus story would turn up in one tomb are 600 to 1, according to the book.