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whose true ossuary incidentally, was also uncovered not far from the Jesus tomb, adding further credence to the claim.”
    “Holy Christ,” I say, trying to keep my voice down. “The Israelis really did discover the true Jesus, didn’t they? Under an apartment complex of all places.”
    “And the find threatened to undermine Christianity or, in other words, destroy the Jesus myth all over again. So, knowing the IAA had a potential religious time bomb on their hands they decided to simply deny the obvious. After all, nothing in archaeology is one hundred percent and they knew that if they denied the truth about the mortal, physical Jesus being less than divine, than so would the rest of the world. Things would be neater and cleaner that way.
    “So what did they do? The ossuaries were removed from the tomb which was then closed up, the site covered over with concrete, never to be seen by human eyes again. IAA even went a step further by burying the ossuaries in a temporary unmarked grave somewhere in the hills above Jerusalem, probably near the Mount of Olives. But even an unmarked grave was considered unsafe.”
    “Enter the Pope,” I interject.
    “Exactly. By now, news of the site had hit the world vine and even though reports were suppressed as much as humanly possible, the Vatican knew they had to work closely with IAA in order to hide the evidence.”
    “Because you can’t just destroy the bones of Jesus and his family.”
    “Right again, Chase. So the Vatican insisted the bones of the Jesus family be moved to a place where no one could ever possibly uncover them, unless of course they knew precisely where to look.”
    “And that’s where the shroud comes in.”
    “Yes, that’s where the shroud comes in. That’s where it’s been coming in for centuries since there has never been any one single resting place of Jesus. Even the tomb located beneath the Israeli apartment complex was not the very first and final resting place of Jesus and his immediate family.”
    “One question: How were the 1978 archaeologists certain that the most recent Jesus tomb was that of the true Jesus family? Jesus was as common a name as Tom or John is now.”
    “Yes, but what made the tomb unique and certainly uncommon, is that it contained the bodies of, and I quote, Jesus son of Joseph, James brother of Jesus, Simon brother of Jesus, Joseph father of Jesus, Mary mother of Jesus and one more special person.”
    “Who would that be?” I ask, already knowing the answer before I hear it.
    “Mary of Magdelaina. Jesus’s wife.”
    I find myself reaching around and scratching the fine hairs that have for the third time in a single day, risen on the back of my neck. I feel myself shaking my head at Anya’s revelation and the fact that it hasn’t yet taken the world and the global religious community by storm.
    “No wonder the Vatican wants to protect the bones of Jesus but at the same time, make them disappear. They’ve been playing this shell game for years. Eons.”
    “Back in 1978, the bones were dug up from the temporary grave in Jerusalem, moved under the cover of darkness across the border to Egypt and hidden in some secret vault or chamber, probably somewhere near or perhaps inside one of the ancient pyramids themselves. And judging by the Shroud wounds sharing the same position as those of the pyramids, it’s more than likely that one of the pyramids was the true resting place of Jesus after he died as an old man. At least that’s what Andre believes. He is convinced that when the Vatican ordered the remains back to the Giza Plateau in 1978, the Pope was essentially sending Jesus back home. Andre’s beliefs were further vindicated when he uncovered the Joseph remains inside a chamber outside the Third Pyramid inside the Giza Plateau. He now believed with all his spiritual and scientific heart that although the 1978 team split the Jesus family remains up by reburying them in separate locations throughout the Plateau,