A few hours ago I contacted the IAA to see if any requests were made to sample
human remains allegedly found in the Talpiot ossuaries, the IAA replied that "no
request were made" and there were, as we well know, no remains recovered in the
ossuaries nor from the tomb. I'm sure that the lab tested something and as
human skeletal remains as well as ossuaries abound on both the antiquities mkt,
and private collections this seems to be another hoax being foisted upon the
public at large.

Secondly one news source reported the following
The human remains were analyzed by Carney Matheson, a scientist at the
Paleo-DNA Laboratory at Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada. Mitochondrial
DNA examination determined the individual in the Jesus ossuary and the person in
the ossuary linked to Mary Magdalene were not related.

For the layperson this may sound convincing until one realizes that these tombs
of extended family members will in nearly all cases contain, if it's possible
to extract, DNA from woman who married in, woman who are biologically/blood
related to the men will have married out and be buried in their husbands family
tomb. Thus, all adult woman in the tomb will have a different DNA signature from
the men in the tomb whom they married. It's that plain and simple, something
overlooked when one has an agenda or deliberately overlooked. Secondly, what is
impt to know is what hasn't been shown to the public and that is these tombs are
not nuclear family tombs, but extended multi-generational family tombs, thus it
is impossible to tell who is the father of Joseph as there will be a large
number of Josephs in the tombs all of whom could be his father. Due to the way
in which Jewish burial customs are, it is simply impossible to tell who is
related to who. I showed something to CNN
yesterday, an undisturbed tomb in which Joseph, the son of the scribe was
buried with the remains of an additional 5 people. Of these 6 individuals
interred in the box, who is the real Joseph ? This is the reason that DNA
testing human remains from these ossuaries is a waste of time unless one is
interested in fooling the public and gaining media attention.
Joe


Joe Zias www.joezias.com
Anthropology/Paleopathology

Science and Antiquity Group @ The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel



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