An ossuary thought to have been the resting place of the Biblical James is a modern fake, not an ancient relic, says a commission of antiquities experts. “A media frenzy followed last October’s announcement that André Lemaire of the Sorbonne University in Paris had found an inscription – James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus – on a light brown limestone box of the type commonly used for burials in first-century A.D. in Jerusalem. It seemed that this box, or ossuary, had once held the bones of James, brother of the biblical Jesus, who was stoned to death in A.D. 62 according to the historian Flavius Josephus. Publicized in the magazine Biblical Archaeology Review, the ossuary was hailed by Time magazine as possibly ‘the most important discovery in the history of New Testament archaeology’.”