The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History (ISBN 0061192023) is a controversial book by Simcha Jacobovici and Charles R. Pellegrino (with a Foreword by James Cameron) published in February 2007.

The book is a tie-in with the documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus, which was released on the Discovery Channel in early March 2007.

The tomb in Talpiot, excavated in 1980[1] during salvage archaeology, originally contained ten ossuaries – bone boxes for secondary burial.

The idea that the people in this tomb are Jesus of Nazareth and his supposed family has been rejected by the overwhelming majority of archeologists, theologians, linguistics and biblical scholars.

[13] Recently, some of the scholars quoted in the Discovery Channel documentary have issued strong clarifications, backtracking on some of the central claims made in the film and book.

"[citation needed] Following a symposium at Princeton in January 2008 the media interest in the Talpiot tomb was reignited with most notably Time[16] and CNN[17] devoting extensive coverage, hailing the case as being re-opened.

[19] Writing in the Jesuit magazine America, Father Joseph Fitzmyer SJ (a well-known Catholic biblical scholar) dismissed the book's theories comparing it to The Da Vinci Code.